Quitting
Quitting

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- 71/100 based on 788 votes
  • Released: 2001
  • Runtime: 114 mins
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  • Studio: Xi'an Film Studio
  • Genres: Drama

In the early 1990s, Hongsheng Jia, then in his mid twenties and based in Beijing, was considered one of the most promising of the emerging actors in China, with several movie and television roles to his credit. However, self doubt in his acting abilities coupled with an emerging drug problem, especially with heroin, led to him deciding to quit acting. Instead, he spent his time solely listening to music and taking drugs. His erratic behavior led to alienation of friends and u... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Quitting:

Jia Hongsheng
Jia Fengsen
Tong Wang
Zhu Hongmao

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In the early 1990s, Hongsheng Jia, then in his mid twenties and based in Beijing, was considered one of the most promising of the emerging actors in China, with several movie and television roles to his credit. However, self doubt in his acting abilities coupled with an emerging drug problem, especially with heroin, led to him deciding to quit acting. Instead, he spent his time solely listening to music and taking drugs. His erratic behavior led to alienation of friends and ultimately leading a solitary life. First his sister and then in addition his rural based parents, his father who took early retirement, came to live with Hongshen in Beijing to help him through his life problems, which included financially supporting him. Hongshen treated them poorly, especially his father, who in turn accepted Hongshen's abusive behavior all in the name of helping him. But they didn't trust him and followed him everywhere. Ultimately the family had figure out what to do to best help Hongshen. Ultimately, Hongshen, and in association his family, is provided a unique opportunity to allow him to release the emotions associated with this turbulent time in his life.

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Seattle Times - 8/10 by John HartlIt helps that the central performers are experienced actors, and that they know their roles so well.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Edward GuthmannIt's downbeat material and it tends to drag a bit, but Jia's performance is so unsparing and intense -- and the film so compassionate and chaste in its approach to a life lost and recovered -- that Quitting ultimately satisfies.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Ann HornadayIf Quitting isn't worthy of affection exactly, it's worthy of respect.
Los Angeles Times - 7/10 by Kevin ThomasDaring and complex. At 112 minutes, it might be 15 minutes too long, but this is not enough to detract from its impact as a probing and universal contemporary drama.
Hollywood Reporter - 7/10 by Richard James HavisFormally ambitious and emotionally engaging.
Toronto Star - 6/10 by Geoff PevereUltimately 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.'
eye WEEKLY - 6/10 by Adam NaymanThe asylum material is gripping, as are the scenes of Jia with his family.
Los Angeles Daily News - 6/10 by Bob StraussIt 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?
New Times - 6/10 by David EhrensteinDaring and beautifully made, Zhang Yang's Quitting plays like a Chinese "Rebel Without a Cause."
San Francisco Examiner - 6/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonQuitting 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.

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