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Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears.
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| Filmcritic.comNorm Schragerkeeps the danger and sadness at bay, instead giving us two fairly developed kid characters |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoOne way to judge a filmmaker is by the way he or she directs children. Take Tze Chun and his impressive first feature, Children of Invention. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThis is not “Death of a Salesman’’ or “Save the Tiger’’ (in the case of the latter, thank God). But how refreshing to see a movie about a mother’s struggles that doesn’t culminate in her lying on her back to make ends meet. |
| Globe and MailRick GroenAn independent film that's all about forced independence. |
| Village VoiceElla TaylorThe young director Tze Chun is not a flashy filmmaker, but he understands the vulnerability of immigrant workers in the sleazy sub-rosa economies of a floundering 21st-century America. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisA modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinChen and Chiu's genuine, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity add immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures. |
| VarietyJohn AndersonUrgent, artful and even austerely poetic. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesShows enormous love and respect for those clutching at the short end of the American Dream. |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottIt's a promising start for director Tze Chun, but despite the film's charms, the story doesn't get interesting enough early enough. |