A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Sep 25, 2007 | IMDB 6.2
83 min Watch NowDrama
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Once Upon a Time in China
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The Photograph
Solo for Clarinet
Straight Shooter
The Way We Were
Daddy Cool
Pauline at the Beach
Life as a House
Blind Shaft
The Misfits
Through a Glass Darkly
Woman Basketball Player No. 5
Eat Drink Man Woman
Bringing Down the House
What a Girl Wants
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IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 1991
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IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2001
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IMDB 7.9 | Jan , 1993
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IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 1993
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IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 1987
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IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 1998
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IMDB 4.5 | Apr , 1999
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IMDB 7 | Mar , 1983
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IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2001
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IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 2003
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IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 1961
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IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1961
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IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 1957
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IMDB 7.6 | Aug , 1994
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IMDB 6 | Mar , 2003
Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.What a Girl Wants
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2003
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