This listing is for Central Station VHS Video Tape.

Actors: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pera, Soia Lira, Othon Bastos

Director: Walter Salles

Producers: Afonso Coaracy, Arthur Cohn, Donald Ranvaud, Elisa Tolomelli

Writers: Joao Emanuel Carneiro, Marcos Bernstein, Walter Salles 

Run time: 1 hour and 53 minutes

Release date: January 11, 2000

Language: German, Portuguese

Subtitles: English

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

This is one of the best, most harrowing, most heartwarming movies I've ever seen. I hardly ever give 5 stars but this is really special. This move is set in Brazil, about a woman who works in a train station as a letter-writer, so that illiterate people can communicate with others. People pour out their troubles to her, or their grievances, or their love. Only she has become very degraded over time, has lost her hope - so she reads the letters to her friend and then puts them in a drawer.

Then a terrible tragedy happens that no one else notices - a little boy loses his mother - and she is challenged to respond. That the feisty lovable little boy is played by an amazingly good actor, a non-professional, who became a sensation in Brazil as a result of this movie, is part of its power.

This movie has more plot twists than you will believe, or be ready for. But they are so plausible, in the context of the harsh, colorful, roiling times of the Brazil of the early 90's - and the characters are so appealing - that you are carried along, heart in your throat, right up to the not-at all-inevitable conclusion.

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