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CENTRAL STATION

“Woman Helps Orphan Boy Find His Family”

Family Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

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A cross between the Good Samaritan and a South American KOLYA, CENTRAL STATION roars onto the silver screen like an exotic South American road picture. Dora is a cynical former elementary school teacher. She writes letters for dozens of illiterate passing bus and subway patrons at Rio’s main bus terminal. Going home, she discards most of the letters. Later, taking a maternal interest in a recently orphaned former customer, and sacrificing her goods and her career in the process, Dora eventually leads the boy back home to northern Brazil.

Receiving almost universal acclaim at the 1998 Telluride Film Festival as among the best new films this year, CENTRAL STATION has an engaging premise and tight storytelling. Every scene moves the story forward with precious little extraneous detail. Moreover, the movie portrays fascinating insights into modern Brazilian culture. As Dora and Joshua wind their serendipitous way across thousands of miles of Brazilian hinterland, viewers are treated to a gritty, but honest view of one of the world’s biggest and most fascinating countries. Finally, the human drama is intense, engaging viewer’s feelings with gripping realism. Containing some vulgarities and some intense scenes, this movie soars with strong Christian and biblical elements.

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(CCC, BB, H, FR, L, V, N, A) Strong Christian, biblical worldview with humanistic worldview elements of a cynical Brazilian bus station letter writer who shows compassion for an abandoned orphan boy with some false religious elements; 12 vulgarities; man shoots vagabond & woman hits boy; woman wears revealing slip in bed; and, woman & boy drink alcohol.

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A cross between the Good Samaritan and a South American KOLYA, CENTRAL STATION roars onto the silver screen like an exotic South American road picture. Dora is a cynical former elementary school teacher. She writes letters for dozens of illiterate passing bus and subway patrons at Rio’s main bus terminal. Going home, she discards most of the letters. Later, taking a maternal interest in a recently orphaned former customer, and sacrificing her goods and her career in the process, Dora eventually leads the boy back home to northern Brazil.
Receiving almost universal acclaim at the 1998 Telluride Film Festival as among the best new films this year, CENTRAL STATION has an engaging premise and tight storytelling. Every scene moves the story forward with precious little extraneous detail. Moreover, the movie portrays fascinating insights into modern Brazilian culture. As Dora and Joshua wind their serendipitous way across thousands of miles of Brazilian hinterland, viewers are treated to a gritty, but honest view of one of the world’s biggest and most fascinating countries. Finally, the human drama is intense, engaging viewer’s feelings with gripping realism. Containing some vulgarities and some intense scenes, this movie soars with strong Christian and biblical elements.