7.4
Remember
2015
“Make yourself at home.”
Brief History of a Family (2024)
September 26, 20241h 40mZH
6.3
30 votes
Overview
A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
Director
Lin JianjieWriter
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Mandarin
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$3K
Production Companies
First Light FilmsTambo FilmFilms du MilieuDFI
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User Reviews
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7.0The young loner “Yuan Sho” (Xilun Sun) has an incident at school that sees him helped by the “Wei” (Muran Lin) who takes him to the nurse. That’s the start of a friendship that sees the injured lad introduced to his friend’s kindly mum (Ke-Yu Guo) and rather aloof scientist dad (Feng Zu) who take a shine to him as his vulnerability awakens hitherto subdued feelings with the adults whom, it emerges, might have liked more than just the one son - but who had to adhere to the prevailing one-child policy of the time. “Yuan Sho” clearly has baggage of his own and as the story unfolds you might expec…
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