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Lost and Lonely (2015)

Lost and Lonely poster
Original title
失孤
Directed by
Peng Sanyuan
Genre
drama film, road movie
Country
Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
12
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A father spends years searching for his abducted son across China. A university student recognizes the child from a social media post and helps reunite them.

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What happens

Lost and Love is a 2015 road drama film written and directed by novelist and television screenwriter Peng Sanyuan in her directorial debut and starring Andy Lau and Jing Boran. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film is inspired by an actual abduction case in 2010 when a Hubei resident was reunited with his son, who had been missing for 3 years, when a university student recognized the child after seeing a post on Sina Weibo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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