The Foolish Bird

Jun 30, 2017

1h 56m

★ 7.0

Overview

Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation. With little structure to regulate her life outside of school, where she is bullied, Lynn begins smuggling and reselling confiscated mobile phones with her friend, which leads to encounters with the city’s seedier inhabitants.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Yellow-Green Pi

Coolie Films Corporation

The Foolish Bird Trailers

Cast

Lynn Lin

Yao Honggui

Dawei

Liqiao Xiao

May

Fang Yao

Huang Ji

Lynn's Grandfather

Huang Zifan

Lynn's Grandmother

Yan Shixiang

Lynn's Mother

Liu Xiaoling

Lynn's Teacher

Wei Xincai

Hair Salon Boss

Huang Weiliang

Mannie

Wang Manling

Fatty

Liu Yang

Peng Na

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