Central Station Movie Review 1998

Dora (Montenegro) is a bitter, aging woman who makes a living writing letters for the illiterate at a stand located in Rio de Janeiro's central railway station. One of her customers sends letters to her 9-year-old son Josue's (de Oliveira) father, who lives in northern Brazil and who has never seen the boy. When Josue's mother is killed in an accident, Dora reluctantly takes the homeless boy in and reluctantly decides they must locate his father. Their road trip turns out to have some unexpected consequences. Portuguese with subtitles.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 110 minutes.
Originally from Brazilian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Road Trip, Childhood Visions, Growing Older, Only the Lonely, Rio

Screenplay

Joao Emmanuel Carneiro, Marcos Bernstein

Cast

Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira, Marilia Pera, Othon Bastos

Cinematography

Walter Carvalho

Director

Walter Salles

Music

Antonio Pinto, Jaques Morelembaum

Producer

Sony Pictures Classics

Awards

British Acad. 1998: Foreign Film; Golden Globes 1999: Foreign Film; L.A. Film Critics 1998: Actress (Montenegro); Natl. Bd. of Review 1998: Actress (Montenegro), Foreign Film.