A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)

6.2/10 • 83 min • Drama

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.

Cast

Henry O

Mr. Shi

Yu Feihong

Yilan

Vida Ghahremani

Madame

Pasha D. Lychnikoff

Boris

Megan Albertus

Forensics Girl

Patrick Treadway

Homeless Man

Tracy Schornick

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Andrea Petty

Middle Aged Woman

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