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.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers has generally received positive reviews.
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers was released in 2007 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 64 reviews, giving A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) an average rating of 61%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 71% and users giving an average score of 74%.
With a score of 61%, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2007, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2007 with similar scores include films like Planet Terror, No Reservations and Paranormal Activity.
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