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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 26, 2009
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Henry O, Pasha Lychnikoff, Vida Ghahremani & Faye Yu | |
| Directed by | Wayne Wang | |
| Screenwriting by | Yiyun Li | |
| Composition by | Lesley Barber | |
| Produced by | Yukie Kito, Rich Cowan & Wayne Wang | |
| Director of Photography: | Patrick Lindenmaier |
Entertainment Reviews:
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PRAYERS is a spare, controlled study in communication gaps and a piercing sketch of suburban American loneliness. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
This is a nice, quietly heartwarming film. The tone really got through to me. I never laughed out loud, but always had a steady grin. Charming.
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Sin Magazine
Wang's new film suggests not only a return to form but also the revival of an old theme from his early Asian-American dramedies: the different ways that certain generations translate and adapt their cultural heritage
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indieWire
Rating: B+ --
A lovely film of small intentions, yet embellished with an enormous heart.
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BrianOrndorf.com
Rating: 3/4 --
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers feels like a fragile wafer of a movie, but it fills you like a three-course meal.
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Boston Globe
[A] gentle, pleasantly unrushed piece of moviemaking....A THOUSAND YEARS studies the subtle day-to-day tensions between Mr. Shi and Yilan before building, in its circumspect way, to a big emotional resolution.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
An intensely observed, small-scale family drama involving disagreement between generations.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
After working on mainstream Hollywood comedies such as MAID IN MANHATTAN and THE LAST HOLIDAY, director Wayne Wang returns to independent dramas with A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS. In this film, Mr. Shi (Henry O) comes to the United States to see his divorced daughter, Yilan (Faye Yu). Mr. Shi soon discovers that it wasn't just age and the distance separating him from his daughter, and he tries to learn more about Yilan, despite her best efforts.
Product Description:
A woman in her early 40s moves from China to America to start a new life. Her father comes to visit her because of her recent divorce. Their generational and cultural conflicts end up revealing the darker lies and cover-ups within her family during the cultural revolution.
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