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A drama that visits rural China, a plantation in South Africa, and Montreal's porn industry, to tell three separate yet universal stories, rooted to struggles with the HIV pandemic. In China, Ping is a pregnant young woman running a black market blood collection scam that creates a mini epidemic in a rural village. In Montreal, Denys is a porn actor hiding his positive HIV status in order to continue... See Full Description
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Art/Foreign, Comedy and Drama |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 4 min. |
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| Release Date: |
December 1st, 2006 (limited) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
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| Distributors: |
Wolfe Releasing, Covington International, ThinkFilm
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
N/A
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Boston Globe, Wesley Morris
"By the last chapter, 3 Needles has becomes a hopeless muddle..." Full Review...
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Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips
"...ambitious but hopelessly inchoate..." Full Review...
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New York Times, Stephen Holden
"For all its gaping crevices and dangling threads, 3 Needles sustains a mood of sorrowful gravity..." Full Review...
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San Francisco Chronicle, G. Allen Johnson
"... the tone is preachy and the stories are curiously underdeveloped and a bit scattered." Full Review...
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