The premise ofGetting Home, a gently mordant comedy from the Chinese director Zhang Yang, is halfway betweenAs I Lay DyingandWeekend at Bernie's....The picaresque tale, which won a jury award at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, combines the social commentary almost inevitable in a contemporary Chinese film....with a canny Western-style whimsicality. --Mike Hale,The New York TimesA debt of friendship turns into a life-changing experience for a Chinese working-class stiff in Zhang Yang'sGetting Home, a road movie-cum-gentle comedy of manners that packs an emotional punch in its final reels. Topped by a finely calibrated, strait-faced [performance] by Mainland stage comedian Zhao Benshan, and marbled with en-route cameos by some of China's best character actors, pic is a feast of acting as well as an on-the-nose portrait of modern Chinese provincial life in all its absurdities. --Derek Elley,VarietySimply put,Getting Homeis one of the best Chinese films of the year. The latest effort from Zhang Yang, who previously delighted viewers with the likes ofShower, it sees the Sixth Generation director continuing his rich vein of form with another honest tale of ordinary people. --James Mudge,Beyond Hollywood