Release Date: July 15, 2011 (limited)
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Wayne Wang
Screenwriter: Ron Bass, Angela Workman, Michael Ray
Starring: Li Bingbing, Jeon Ji-Hyun, Archie Kao, Hugh Jackman
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexuality, violence/disturbing images and drug use)
Official Website: FoxSearchlight.com
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DVD: DVD | Blu-ray Disc
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Plot Summary: Inspired by the bestselling novel "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship.

In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong – or "old sames" – bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan.

In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong's descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or risk losing one another forever.

What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.

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