Shanghai Dreams

2005 · 123 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 1,213 VOTES · DIR. Wang Xiaoshuai

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Overview

In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love with a local boy, threatening their chance of a return to the city.

Dialogue Timeline — 916 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:45 heeding their government's call for a strategic "third front"
00:07:59 He Xiangdong!
00:15:03 He wants you to get into university
00:19:00 Zhen Zhen, it's Qing Hong!
00:21:09 who's going to take responsibility?
00:24:05 Don't. It's too risky.
00:26:11 talking about school.
00:29:20 Answer me! Are you going or not?
00:37:59 Well?
00:44:56 It's stable if you don't slack off.
00:47:03 And a pretty little wife.
00:50:12 and a long road ahead of her.
00:52:49 She'll hate us forever.
00:57:55 But she's a good kid already.
01:01:37 I don't want my mum to hear.
01:04:27 No, no! Groom, you lean toward her, heads together...
01:09:06 countless urban Chinese workers
01:13:22 They're enough to make you blush!
01:16:16 Tomorrow, I'll call the boys over for another meeting.
01:21:39 There we go. That's it...
01:27:57 at the factory.
01:31:52 I'm going to kill you!
01:42:40 I hear you're asking for a divorce.
01:49:12 resist pernicious strains of thought of the capitalist and exploiting classes...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed916
Dialogue density7.4 lines / min
First line00:00:45
Final line01:49:12

Production Record

DirectorWang Xiaoshuai
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes1,213