A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2007 · 83 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 1,185 VOTES · DIR. Wayne Wang
Overview
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.
Dialogue Timeline — 443 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:23 This is the rocket scientist I was sitting next to on the plane.
00:19:21 What are you writing?
00:20:13 It's very peaceful. It's very peaceful.
00:21:47 Jirjirak. Jirjirak.
00:23:21 My wife--
00:25:02 No good to stomach.
00:26:18 To stand up.
00:27:23 Yes yes.
00:34:20 Oh.
00:35:15 three years.
00:36:52 I love America.
00:40:11 We would lose half of our traditional Chinese literature.
00:44:34 Oh, no.
00:46:21 You two sons.
00:47:48 Have you ever been to the museum in Montana?
00:49:03 maybe it's not that old
00:55:31 She work here, library.
00:57:24 Big house.
01:00:36 Mm-hmm, yes, I was with them 11 years.
01:02:54 How many prayers did we say?
01:14:10 Yilan...
01:20:50 # we had no Code #
01:21:50 # and a forged passport #
03:00:00 of prayers
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed443
Dialogue density5.3 lines / min
First line00:01:23
Final line03:00:00
Production Record
DirectorWayne Wang
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,185