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The Middle of the World

2003 · 1h 25m · NOT RATED Drama
Directed by Vicente Amorim

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Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.

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Fresh

Where Middle of the World becomes more appealing is in showing life along the less-traveled roads of Brazil, a landscape of beauty and poverty, nomad lives and basic instincts in a determination to make the best of a lurid existence.

Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Rotten

A true Brazilian story of vague human-interest value ... gets a heavy-handed treatment.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten

Wants to be both a realistic family drama and a mythical odyssey but lacks the substance to be much more than a vignette.

Stephen Holden, New York Times

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