If you like animated classics and Muriel's Wedding, this film will warm any Asian families hearts!

Rating: 6/10 (13 November 2008)

Droll, dull, uneventful - rowing on a lake, and staring out a window - wow, so riveting! Not really a guy's kinda film, The Yawnbook more like it. Dong la!
However, in saying that. I have never managed to be more drawn into the middle of the movie. Katherine Hepburn who plays Audry, an autistic teenager portrays a dis-normal childhood into a slightly parodic type to which anyone can relate to. Michael Keaton who plays the childs father is heroic in the sense that he can hold a job as a lawyer while still managing to cure Audry's illness. The mother who is played by Kathlene Turner is anything but funny, a serious and mischievous woman who gains satisfaction, when she wins the lottery at a local RSL and learns that there can be happiness from money if one wishes for it hard enough. This romantic yet dramatic real life story can only be described as confusing yet relatable in it's self confusion of today's world and economy.
The scenes are beautifully done in exotic Africa and Hungary, mostly from a small farm in Brazil, containing beautiful images of young and old and doctors who try to cure glandular fever.
I would rate this movie to be one of the years top films, well done Hiroshi Wu for directing this film and to all the support from leading charities who contributed to this film from Hong Kong.