The Road Home

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The Road Home
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G,1hr 29min
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May 25, 2001
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Sony Picture Classics
Synopsis: Following on the heels of director Zhang Yimou's Not One Less (1999), which won the top prize at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, comes this sensitively-wrought portrait of a young woman's unshakable love. The film opens in the present, shot in gritty black and white, as businessman Luo Yusheng (Sun Honglei) returns to his hometown in the rural Hebei province to attend the funeral of his father. When Luo suggests that the coffin should be brought home from the hospital on a tractor, his aging mother ... Full Synopsis
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A beautifully textured, disarmingly simple movie about romantic devotion. Full Review
Metascore
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71
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out of 100
Featured Cast
Zhao Di, Young
Grandmother
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