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CONSENSUS
While Quitting is an honest and intimate look into the world of one man's struggle with drug addiction, the subject matter is better suited for the small screen.
CAST & CREW
Jia Hongsheng, Jia Fengsen, Chai Xiurong
Directed by Zhang Yang
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SYNOPSIS
In the late 80's a new film star, Jia Hongsheng, emerged in China. Labeled "the thug idol," he gained fame playing gangsters and heroes in a series of Chinese B-movies. more...
MPAA RATING
R, drug content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 52 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 13, 2002
Video: Mar 4, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Classics
GENRE
Dramas, Foreign Films, Chinese/Mandarin, Drugs, Drug Addiction, Actors, Chinese
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Quitting Site
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "A compelling tale of obsession and addiction."
-- Chris Wiegand, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
 "Bogs down badly as we absorb Jia's moody, bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance."
-- Joshua Tanzer, OFFOFFOFF
"It may not be as cutting, as witty or as true as back in the glory days of Weekend and Two or Three Things I Know About Her, but who else engaged in filmmaking today is so cognizant of the cultural and moral issues involved in the process?"
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"The best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding. Quitting, however, manages just to be depressing, as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"The asylum material is gripping, as are the scenes of Jia with his family."
-- Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY
"An involving true story of a Chinese actor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"The entire cast is extraordinarily good."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"This is darkest drama reminiscent of Antonin Artaud's literary experiments in psychoanalysis."
-- David Ehrenstein, NEW TIMES
"Presents a side of contemporary Chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists, and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"The film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures, but it still manages to get a few punches in."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"A surprisingly touching film."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"The fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, AUFMUTH.COM
-- "Renouncing and reunification --Family and friends go through the emotions twice in ‘Quitting’"
-- John Esther, PASADENA WEEKLY
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"Whether Quitting will prove absorbing to American audiences is debatable."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor."
-- Tim Merrill, FILM THREAT
"It helps that the central performers are experienced actors, and that they know their roles so well."
-- John Hartl, SEATTLE TIMES
"That dogged good will of the parents and 'vain' Jia's defoliation of ego, make the film touching despite some doldrums."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"The downward spiral of drug addiction isn't always pleasant to watch, but the film still reaches some painful truths."
-- Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Qutting may be a flawed film, but it is nothing if not sincere."
-- Warren Curry, FILMCRITIC.COM
"An unusual and compelling Chinese film about the loving interventions of a father and mother whose oldest son is a drug addict."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"... mesmerizing, an eye-opening tour of modern Beijing culture in a journey of rebellion, retreat into oblivion and return."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Quitting delivers a sucker-punch, and its impact is all the greater beause director Zhang's last film, the cuddly Shower, was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public bath house."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
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FRESH 75%
Avg. Rating: 6.9/10 |
"A probing and universal contemporary drama."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"If you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle, Quitting hits home with disorienting force."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"If Mr. Zhang's subject matter is, to some degree at least, quintessentially American, his approach to storytelling might be called Iranian."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy, the film becomes predictably conventional."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"It further declares its director, Zhang Yang of Shower, as a boldly experimental, contemporary stylist with a bright future."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"Ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of Chinese 'cultural revolution.'"
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"Zhang ... has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"Less than fresh."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Daring and beautifully made."
-- Patrick Z. McGavin, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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"An unflinching and moving portrayal of addiction and family."
-- E! ONLINE
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