This film is like a twilight zone episode on steroids. If it had been a twilight zone episode, it would've been great done in less than 30 minutes given commercials in a half hour show me made back in the 60s. Unfortunately, this movie runs for two hours and 19 minutes give or take considering the end credits. There really wasn't very much original in the plot, considering the twilight zone plots. We're filmed over a half a century ago. There were some good roles for the leads, but like the plot, they lose some of their punch when stretched over such a needlessly long film. It took me four days to complete watching the film because I kept falling asleep and had to stop and watch some thing else and then come back to try and digest another chunk. By the time I watched half of it I had invested enough time in it, that I felt the need to finish it and see if the film had any redeeming qualities. In the end, it's another empty-nester film. How do parents bring up their children to be independent from them and then actually grant them that independence, complete with a heartwarming, happy ending where everyone finds true understanding of themselves and others. Grant you there is the Chinese cultural overlay, but this story plays out in every culture in millions of families every year for hundreds of years and has been made into films and TV shows many times. Again, it could've just an is as easily been made in a 30 minute episode of the twilight zone.