Quitting

Name: Quitting
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Released: September 13, 2002
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 61

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: September 13, 2002 | R

Summary: Explores one man's journey, from the cutting edge of China's artistic movement in the early 90's, through a period of conflict with himself and his parents, to a mental institution and finally to the quest to rediscover himself and his family. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Director: Yang Zhang

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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Sean Axmaker

The total effect is mesmerizing, an eye-opening tour of modern Beijing culture in a journey of rebellion, retreat into oblivion and return. Read full review

Patrick Z. McGavin

Daring and beautifully made, Zhang Yang's Quitting plays like a Chinese "Rebel Without a Cause." Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Daring and complex. At 112 minutes, it might be 15 minutes too long, but this is not enough to detract from its impact as a probing and universal contemporary drama. Read full review

Roger Ebert

It is a brave experiment, based on life and using actors who play themselves, but it buys into the whole false notion that artists are somehow too brilliant to be sober. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Because Quitting admits its basic falsehood up front, the film is never emotionally affecting, but Jia's participation in this confrontation of his past shows remarkable courage and honesty, especially when his behavior doesn't inspire much sympathy. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Alternately grueling and soporific, Quitting is a movie about addiction that demands the viewer also give something up. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making. Read full review

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RianneM.

Nov 9, 2005

This is such a beautiful movie, the music, the drama.

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PatC.

Feb 6, 2007

A movie devoid of imaginative devices, but otherwise fully formed. A fine story, applicable in all cultures, of a youth asserting his own devices, but finding they can't improve on a sense of responsibility to his family.

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