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A young boy's (Oliveira) mother is killed in front of Rio de Janeiro's Central Station. Homeless and with nowhere to turn, he is reluctantly befriended by a lonely and cynical woman (Montenegro). Resisting her initial impulse to make a quick profit off the child, she commits to returning him to his father in Brazil's remote Northeast. The trip becomes a quest for their own identities: one boy's search for his father, and one woman's search for her heart. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Central Station Info:

Release Date:
DVD: July 13, 1999
Video: January 11, 2000
Theatrical: November 20, 1998
MPAA Rating: R for language
Running Time: 113 minutes, Color
Genre: Foreign
Country: Brazil / France
Language: Portuguese (with English subtitles)
Directed By:
Walter Salles
Written By:
Marcos Bernstein
João Emanuel Carneiro
Walter Salles (story)
Cast:
Fernanda Montenegro
Marília Pêra
Vinícius de Oliveira
Soia Lira
Othon Bastos
Otávio Augusto

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