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Summary
During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+10)
Critics 86Audiences 76GoodWatch 81
Tomatometer86%
Audience score80%
IMDb7.1
Running time
1 h 10 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −26 min on the typical 96
typical 9670Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
Released
2007
April 14, 2007
19 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
ChineseDirecting · 2
- Les Blank Director
- Gina Leibrecht Director, Editor
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