Mei Mei (Zhu Lin) a 16-year-old Chinese orphan who has been supported by donations from her Australian sponsor Dean Randall (Guy Pearce), who sends her postcards that describe his family life. When her orphanage choir travels to Australia to participate in an Australian Choir Festival, Mei Mei takes the opportunity to find Dean with the hope he will make her part of his family. However, Mei Mei discovers the shocking truth – Dean is actually a convict in prison for manslaughter. Seeing Dean as her last chance at finding a home, Mei Mei decides to stay in Sydney until Dean gets his parole, in the meantime becoming naively entangled in the criminal world herself. To save Mei Mei from his own fate, Dean must make an impossible sacrifice.
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A nice film that could have been great! Guy Pearce saved this movie from being boring, though Zhu Lin did a great job as well. The direction was horrible, It had been more dramatic or at least more believable. The acting from everyone else but the two main characters was very bad. No one could deliver a line correctly so the film suffered due to a poor script and poor acting from the minor characters. This at times was a sweet adventure film mixed with the harsh realities of life but Mei Mei shows us the bright side can always defeat the harsh side.
2/5
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