The Children of Huang Shi 2008 123movies

Watch: 黃石的孩子 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – People thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation discover their capacity for love and responsibility. A young Englishman, George Hogg, comes to lead sixty orphaned boys on a journey of over 500 perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And how, in doing so, he comes to understand the meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese communist partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian nurse whom war has turned into an unsentimental healer on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China..
Plot: About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 9,674
	31% | RottenTomatoes
	49/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 124 Popularity: 7.598 | TMDB

Reviews:

Where do the children play?
Greetings again from the darkness. It is difficult to imagine a more powerful, emotional story than the real life heroism of George Hogg. He was a British journalist who truly saved the life and dreams of 60 war Chinese war orphans during the 1937 invasion by Japan.

The good news is that the story is remarkable, but the downside is how director Roger Spottiswoode (“Tomorrow Never Dies”, “Turner and Hooch”) is stuck with two miscast leads. Jonathan Rhys Meyers doesn’t have the chops to pull off strength of Hogg and much worse is the downright horrible performance of Radha Mitchell as Lee, the war hardened do-gooder. The combination of these two severely weaken the film, but luckily not the story.

Chow Yun-Fat and the great Michelle Yeoh play important supporting roles and both are excellent in their English speaking parts. Both are masters at letting simple facial gestures express the bulk of their thoughts. The children in the film are a pleasure to watch, though, we really don’t connect with any of them.

Some of the landscape is beautifully film and Spottiswoode does a good job of portraying the hardships of the 700 mile Silk Road journey, without it dragging the pace down. Again, the power of this story is unmistakable, but it is certainly not given its due by this rendition. Make sure to stay for the credits as we are treated to first hand memories of some of the surviving children (now very adavanced in age, but extremely lucid).

Other Information:

Original Language zh
Runtime 2 hr 5 min (125 min)
Budget 40000000
Revenue 7785317
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, War
Director Roger Spottiswoode
Writer Jane Hawksley, James MacManus, Simon van der Borgh
Actors Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat
Country Australia, China, Germany, United States
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam Cameras, Cooke and Angenieux Lenses, Arriflex 435 Advanced, Cooke and Angenieux Lenses
Laboratory ARRI Film & TV, München, Germany (prints), Cinevex Film Laboratory, Australia (dailies)
Film Length 3,430 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)