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Hi, Mom

2021 · 128 min

A warm, funny, and deeply moving journey that blends nostalgia with heartache, leaving you both laughing and crying.

Directed by
Jia Ling
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Starring
Jia Ling, Zhang Xiaofei, Shen Teng
Overview
Devastated after her mom's serious accident and grief-stricken because she hasn't become the daughter she wanted to be for her mother, a Chinese woman finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she meets her younger mother before she was her mom.

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Directed by
Jia Ling
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Starring
Jia Ling, Zhang Xiaofei, Shen Teng
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • grief
  • love
  • parenthood
  • memory
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism4
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy, fantasy
Directed by
Jia Ling
Written by
Jia Ling, Wang Yu, Sun Jibin, Bu Yu
Starring
Jia Ling, Zhang Xiaofei, Shen Teng, Chen He, He Huan, Liu Jia, Ding Jiali, Qiao Shan
Music
Michael Lai Siu-Tin, Fei Peng
Cinematography
Liu Yin, Sun Ming
Runtime
128 min
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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