
A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an ambitious expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly modernizing Shanghai, China. Based on true events.... (Full plot summary below)
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A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an ambitious expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly modernizing Shanghai, China. Based on true events.
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| Epoch TimesJoe BendelIt is bitingly satirical, trenchantly observant, and features a cast of characters that runs the entire social gamut. It is also deeply rooted in actual, documented events. |
| Backseat MafiaRob AldamDead Pigs is an acerbic commentary on modern China, wrapped in an absurdist comedy and an oddball family drama |
| VarietyJessica KiangAn antidote to China's weightier arthouse output, settling the stomach after too much stolid social realism, effervescent as an alka-seltzer. |
| Cinema AxisCourtney SmallYan's characters, regardless of which side of the social hierarchy they fall on, are layered and feel like real people rather than caricatures. |