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Warm Spring
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List Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Razor Digital Entertainment
Starring: Tian Chengren, Yu Weijie Hai Yang
Directed By: Zhang Yan
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781595521736
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 1595521739
Label: Razor Digital Entertainment
Manufacturer: Razor Digital Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Razor Digital Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-11-08
Running Time: 107
Studio: Razor Digital Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Reviews:
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Studio: Razor Digital Ent Release Date: 11/08/2005 Rating: Nr
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Customer Rating:
Summary: What were they thinking?
Comment: You can read the DVD review if you would like to know the story line, so I will concentrate on letting you know what to expect in this film.
If you enjoying seeing people cry and cry AND CRY, this movie is for you. There is a scene where all the characters are crying, not because someone has died or some awful thing has happened, but rather because everyone feels bad at how they acted toward each other. I started to laugh every time people started to cry (which was at least 10 times throughout the film. Take out your galoshes!
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Summary: Very touching
Comment: Beware of anybody who can watch this movie without being moved. That would be a red flag (no pun intended, by the way).
This movie will appeal to anyone who hopes for a world where compassion, generosity, and simple human kindness can heal and transform.
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Summary: Boring and disapointing
Comment: It took forever to see this predictable story. The script is like those of the time Mao was around, showing how people should be behaving. The story drags forever, every movement is predictable, acting is amateurish. I wish I did not bought this DVD. The other reviews are very misleading. The only tear I shed was for the money spent on this mediocre work.
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Summary: "Warm Spring": Touching Story about "Little Flower," a 7-Year-Old Girl
Comment: "Nuan Chun (Warm Spring)" is a small Chinese film directed by Wulan Tana. (This is her feature film debut.) I must say the film would be too melodramatic for some who prefer more restrained storytelling, but still its simple story about a little girl is well told and the acting is all great. And the little girl Xiao Hua is so adorable.
The story, which is set in countryside in China in the late 1980s, begins with a 7-year-old girl Xiao Hua (Yan Zhang) who has just run away from her abusive foster parents to a nearby village. The villagers just don't care, however, and none of them offers her a shelter until a kind old man (Tian Chengren) decides to take her home. But the old man's daughter-in-law doesn't want her and her indifferent husband doesn't want to interfere.
Certainly the melodramatic story about Xiao Hua (meaning "Little Flower") involving several attempts of the daughter-in-law trying to get rid of her may sound too good to be true. But like the heroine of Zhang Yimou's acclaimed "Not One Less," Xiao Hua wins the love and respect from everybody with pure determination and good will and this is the part most appealing in the film.
"Warm Spring" turned out a surprise hit in mainland China in 2003. It is reported that this low-budget film (2,000,000 Chinese yuan = about 280,000 US $) made a huge success in the domestic box-office and the film eventually garnered box-office revenue ten times as much as its budget. I am not surprised to hear that after watching the film with a touching story.
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Summary: A tear jerker from China
Comment: This is somewhat like "Heidi" in that there is a sweet cheerful orphan and a "grandpa". From beginning to end you are rooting for her. Initially, they spurned her but grandpa takes her in when she is found exhausted and abused. One by one, everyone in town falls in love with her. The ending is a total meltdown of happiness. The Chinese countryside is beautifully shot, making you wonder why anyone would want to move to the city, but these people are all dirt poor. The movie is a message that sometimes an apparent burden can bring a great reward. Have your hanky at the ready as you will definitely get emotionally involved. My only mild criticism is with the subtitles which uses words like "adapted" instead of "adopted" and such. Still, this is a good heart warming movie.
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