Together

Name: Together
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: May 30, 2003
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Hong Chen, Peiqi Liu, Yun Tang

2003

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United Artists | Release Date: May 30, 2003

Starring: Hong Chen, Peiqi Liu, Yun Tang

Summary: A coming-of-age tale woven together with the harmony and intensity of a complex musical orchestration. (MGM)

Director: Kaige Chen

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Runtime: 116 min

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William Arnold

Together is a likely candidate to become that one foreign-language film that jumps out of the art houses each year to become a mainstream phenomenon. Read full review

Richard Corliss

Isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

To contextualize the story's lack of subtlety, it helps to see these casting choices as ongoing penance for the time when, as a boy, Chen denounced his own father to the Red Guard. Read full review

Premiere Aaron Hillis

It may be a crowd-pleasing escapism, but it's that feel-good shmaltz that ultimately plays the film off-key. Read full review

Wesley Morris

The film doesn't amount to an emotionally palpable experience. Most of the stops it attempts to pull out are rusty. The movie ends with a gigantic lump in its throat, one that would take a tall glass of Barbara Stanwyck to wash down. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

The performances are all terrific, but Together never jells as a compelling narrative. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Since this is a coming-of-age movie about a poor rural kid who grapples with the big city, it would be nice if its protagonist weren’t such a lummox. Read full review

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patrickd.

Nov 6, 2005

BRILLIANT!!!!!

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