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Exit

2014, Movie, 1h 34min

After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. Her elderly mother is ailing in hospital. On one of her many visits to the ward she notices an injured man and tentatively starts to care for him.

Country: Taiwan

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Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

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...a slow-burning debut that touchingly explores loneliness without slipping into sentimentality.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Mark Kermode

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...[Chen Shiang-Chyi] is superb as Ling, a fortysomething woman with early-onset menopause trapped in a stifling existence...

Read full review at The Guardian

Frequently asked questions

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In this powerful drama, a middle-aged woman named Ling finds herself alone and struggling after losing her job. Despite her own difficulties, she takes pity on a young man in a coma who is hospitalized next to her ailing mother. As she tends to his needs, she begins to find a new sense of purpose and understanding of her own solitude. Through their unlikely bond, Ling learns to take care of herself and discovers that her loneliness is not a condemnation, but an opportunity for growth and connection.

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You can stream Exit on: Apple TV Store

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Exit include The Good Lie, Still Alice, You're Not You, 1000 to 1, Detachment, The Glass Castle.