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Father

Father

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 11, 2000

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

我是你爸爸

Production Companies

Beijing Film Studio, Beijing Good Dreams, Beijing Shanhe Yingshi Yishu See

Director

Wang Shuo

Description

Father documents the tumultuous relationship between a widowed father, Ma Lisheng, and his school-age son, Ma Che. Though he works as a low-level party functionary during the day, he finds his greatest challenges in the raising of a son on his own. Alternating between trying to bond with his son (even getting drunk with him), and verbally accosting him, Ma is at a loss. One day the son decides that the best way for his father to stop harassing him, will be to find him a new wife, which he finds in the form of the mother of a school friend, Qing Huaiyuan.