The Road Home (Wo de fu qin mu qin) (2001)
92%RT Audience Score: 90%
Awards & Nominations: 19 wins & 10 nominations
Beautifully filmed, The Road Home is a simple touching and tender love story.
The Road Home is a movie that will make you feel all the feels. It’s a love story that spans generations and will have you reaching for the tissues by the end. But don’t worry, it’s not all tears – there are plenty of moments that will make you smile and even laugh. Zhang Ziyi gives a fantastic performance and proves that she’s more than just a kung-fu queen. Overall, it’s a beautiful film that celebrates the simple things in life and reminds us of the power of love.
Production Company(ies)
Mosfilm Tvorcheskoe Obedinienie Pisateley i Kinorabotnikov
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
MPAA / Certificate
G
Year of Release
2001
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby SR
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:1h 30m
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Language(s):Mandarin
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Feb 15, 2000 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 27, 2001
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Zhang Ziyi, Sun Honglei, Zhao Yulian, Li Bin, Chang Guifa, Sung Wencheng, directed by Yimou Zhang, written by Shi Bao, drama, G rating, Sony Pictures Classics, $1.3M box office, reviewed by Steven D Greydanus, Colin Kennedy, Marrit Ingman, Roger Moore, Susan Stark, Michael Wilmington, Greg Muskewitz, Kelly Vance, Mark Halverson, Pablo Villaça, Jeffrey Overstreet, North China, village, teacher, love story, funeral, city businessman, village school, childhood, romance, simple, touching, tender, beautifully filmed, emotionally satisfying, delicately simple, nostalgic, tribute, beauty, heroism, Zhang Ziyi’s performance, Yimou’s direction, sumptuously filmed, ordinary folk, falling in love, poignant music, reconciliation, reminiscing, Chinese film
Worldwide gross: $6,780,490
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $11,427,081
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,929
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 1,246,138
US/Canada gross: $1,280,490
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend:
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Honglei Sun – Luo Yusheng
Yulian Zhao – Zhao Di (Old)
Bin Li – Grandmother
Guifa Chang – Mayor (Old)
Wencheng Sung – Mayor
Self – Director: Yimou Zhang
Self – Producer: Yu Zhao
Self – Writer: Shi Bao
Director(s)
Yimou Zhang
Writer(s)
Shi Bao
Producer(s)
Yu Zhao
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
19 wins & 10 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (80) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (9)
About love acutely desired in youth and fiercely remembered in old age… delicately simple and emotionally satisfying.
March 2, 2004 | Rating: B+
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films
TOP CRITIC
April 21, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
Colin Kennedy
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
March 10, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5
Marrit Ingman
Austin Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
If this film’s coda doesn’t move you to tears, you’d better make an appointment with your cardiologist.
August 24, 2001
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
TOP CRITIC
A layered, delicately but surely romantic tribute to the simplicity and grace of a bygone era.
August 20, 2001 | Rating: 4/4
Susan Stark
Detroit News
TOP CRITIC
Celebrates a beauty and heroism around us that we often miss in both our movies and our lives.
July 19, 2001 | Rating: 4/4
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
April 4, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com
In the spirit of the best nostalgic village pics, only one thing happens, and yet it turns out to mean everything to its characters.
May 4, 2010
Kelly Vance
East Bay Express
August 7, 2008 | Rating: 3/5
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
Mantendo seus habituais comentrios polticos em segundo plano, Yimou narra uma histria de amor simples, mas tocante, trazendo Zhang Ziyi numa performance absolutamente adorvel.
March 30, 2006 | Rating: 4/5
Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena
For the way it gave me room to ponder, for the gift of its colors, and for the delicate performance by Zhang Ziyi… it’s one of my favorite films of 2001.
January 15, 2005 | Rating: A
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
Zhang Ziyi, who is considered to be the movies new queen of kung-fu shows that she can do more than just kick *** here.
November 7, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette…
Plot
A city businessman returns to his rural hometown for his father’s funeral and spends a day teaching at the village school, fulfilling his father’s wish and falling in love with a local woman in the process, in the touching and tender love story, The Road Home.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Zhang Ziyi, who is considered to be the movie’s new queen of kung-fu, shows that she can do more than just kick *** here.
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