A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2007 · Movie · 83 min · ★ 6.1 · 72% critics
A retired father travels from Beijing to visit his adult daughter in America after her divorce, hoping to help but finding a painful emotional distance instead. Their uneasy time together becomes a quiet look at family expectations, cultural gaps, and the struggle to truly communicate.
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Details
- Years
- 2007
- Release date
- 2007-09-25
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Critic score
- 72/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (26 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy quiet, reflective family dramas like Tigertail or Tortilla Soup, with small emotional shifts and gentle humor; Not for you if you want fast pacing or clear-cut catharsis.
Pros: moving quiet moments; thoughtful family tensions; humane cross-cultural theme | Cons: very slow pace; emotionally distant for some; feels slight or aimless
Themes
- daughter
- china
- persia
- retiree
- divorce
Cast & crew
Henry O
as Mr. Shi
Yu Feihong
as Yilan
Vida Ghahremani
as Madame
Pasha D. Lychnikoff
as Boris
- JW
Jared Wagner
as Airport Greeter
Directed by Wayne Wang