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Summary
When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+10)
Critics 49Audiences 59GoodWatch 47
Tomatometer53%
Metascore45
IMDb6.2
Audience score55%
Running time
1 h 38 min
A typical length for romances, −9 min on the typical 107
typical 10798Half of all romances run 97–122 min.
Reach
Streams in 7 countries, rent or buy in 4 more
Released
2012
May 3, 2012
14 years ago
Genres
RomanceComedyDramaLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
ChineseMade in
- United States
China
and 4 moreDirecting · 1
- Daniel Hsia Director, Writer
Camera · 1
- Armando Salas Director of Photography
Other crew · 2
- Klaus Badelt Compositor
- Christopher Carmichael Compositor
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