Where to Watch Last Train Home (2010) in the US

What it's about

Husband and wife Changhua Zhang and Suqin Chen are among 130 million migrant Chinese workers, most, like them, who have left children behind in the village for elders to care of, and who only see their family once a year when they head home for the biggest holiday of the year, Lunar New Year. In 2006, they will have been away from their village for sixteen years, they starting this life when their only child at the time, daughter Qin Zhang, was one year old, she raised by Suqin's parents, her father having since passed. Three years in their collective lives from 2006 to 2009 are told, largely centered on those annual trips home, and the parents' relationship with their two children, which also now includes adolescent son Yang Zhang, who they don't really know in only seeing them once a year. Changhua and Suqin's goal in choosing this life was to get the family out of poverty, they living to work - in a clothing sweat shop - sending money home so that Qin and Yang will stay in school for a better future, one that they themselves had no chance at in being confined to an agrarian existence. Qin, who over the course of those three years, will be at an age where she will make decisions for her own life, she seeing her parents' sacrifice not so much in that vein, but rather one that had a negative impact for her in not really having had parents and living what she considers a sad existence in the village, which is comprised primarily of school and farm work.

Cast and crew

Director

Lixin Fan

Writer

Daniel Cross

Starring

Changhua Zhang, Yang Zhang, Suqin Chen

Details

Release date

Sep 9, 2010

Language

Mandarin

Country

Canada, China, United Kingdom

Box office

$288,328

Awards

14 wins & 13 nominations total

Where to Watch Last Train Home (2010) in the US — common questions

Where to watch Last Train Home in the United States?

Last Train Home is available free with a participating library card or to rent in the United States. Watch the movie free with a participating library card on hoopla and Kanopy (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store.

Can I stream Last Train Home or do I have to rent it in the United States?

Rent the movie on Apple TV Store.

Can I watch Last Train Home for free in the United States?

Watch the movie free with a participating library card on hoopla and Kanopy (HD).