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Summary
HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE follows the journey of two of China’s first citizen reporters as they travel the country – chronicling underreported news and social issues stories.
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+19)
Critics 58Audiences 77GoodWatch 58
Tomatometer63%
Metascore53
Audience score82%
IMDb7.2
Running time
1 h 27 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −9 min on the typical 96
typical 9687Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
To rent or buy in 1 countries
Released
2012
April 19, 2012
14 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Chinese
Original language
Made in
United States
China
Directing · 1
- Stephen T. Maing Director
Editing · 1
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editor
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