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Central Station
Drama - 1998
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An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
110 min
Release date:
20 Nov 1998
Country:
BR
Languages:
Portuguese
Budget:
$2,900,000
Revenue:
$5,596,708
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 43 wins & 26 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Salles directs simply and watchfully, with an eye that seems to penetrate all the characters who are encountered on Dora's and Josue's journey.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
It'll probably work better if you're not terribly familiar with the movies that inspired it.
– Paul Tatara,
CNN.com,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
its blatantly manipulative pairing of an adorable young boy and a selfish, honesty-challenged older woman ... so calculating that I could never get emotionally involved.
– Peter Brunette,
Film.com,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
The movie's success rests largely on the shoulders of Fernanda Montenegro, an actress who successfully defeats any temptation to allow sentimentality to wreck her relationship with the child.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
As beautiful as it is wrenching.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
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