Dearest

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Dearest was welcome surprise on the festival channel. I like the director Peter Ho and went into this knowing nothing but that it is a film about a lost child (the film plot descriptions are not usually reliable). This is a film about child abduction and its effects on parents and kids. There is also another victim (acted by Vicy Zhao tyring to downplay her beauty) the wife of the abductor. She thought that her husband brought abandoned children home (in reality he abducted one and the other he just found abandoned) and she believes that she is barren. The abducted child's parents are divorced and they don't get back together even after the kid is found but they do go to the support group together and only they can understand how the other feels. This turned out to be a very interesting film and I didn't even yawn during it.