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With: Mahasamut Boonyaruk, Saengthong Gate-Uthong, Sawatwong Palakawong Na Autthaya, Raenkum Saninn, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (narrator), Chuck Stephens
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Written by: Wisit Sasanatieng, based on a novel by Koynuch
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Directed by: Wisit Sasanatieng
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
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Language: Thai with English subtitles
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Running Time: 100
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Date: 12/12/2004
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Bottled Up
By Jeffrey M. Anderson From the midst of the Thai New Wave comes Wisit Sasanatieng's amazingly cockeyed Citizen Dog, a kind of dreamy, cartoony romance in which anything can happen and then keeps on happening. Country boy Pod (Mahasamut Boonyaruk) moves to Bangkok and falls in love with the equally dreamy Jin (Saengthong Gate-Uthong). He begins to rearrange his life in order to be closer to her, even if it means conquering a mountain of plastic bottles. As with Sasanatieng's previous film, Tears of the Black Tiger, the artificiality eventually conquers the emotional connection to the characters, but there's still a lot to see. The American film critic Chuck Stephens, a specialist on Thai film, plays "Peter."
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