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Ghosts

  • 20062006
  • 1h 36m
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7.3/10
836
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Ghosts (2006)
AdventureCrimeDrama
A young Chinese girl is smuggled into the UK so she can support her son and family in China.A young Chinese girl is smuggled into the UK so she can support her son and family in China.A young Chinese girl is smuggled into the UK so she can support her son and family in China.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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    • Nick Broomfield
    • Nick Broomfield
    • Jez Lewis
    • Hsiao-Hung Pai(work of)
  • Stars
    • Zhan Yu
    • Tao Li
    • Ai Qin Lin
    • Nick Broomfield
    • Nick Broomfield
    • Jez Lewis
    • Hsiao-Hung Pai(work of)
  • Stars
    • Zhan Yu
    • Tao Li
    • Ai Qin Lin
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    • 12User reviews
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    Zhan Yu
    • Mr. Lin
    Tao Li
    • Chinese Cockle-Picker
    Ai Qin Lin
    • Ai Qin
    Zhe Wei
    • Xiao Li
    Yong Aing Zhai
    • Zhai
    • (as Wen Buo Zhai)
    An Sheng Lin
    • Baby Bebe
    Kan Jin Chen
    • Ai Qin's Mother
    Shiang Fa Lin
    • Ai Qin's Father
    Qin Rong Lin
    • Ai Qin's Brother
    Ping Chen
    • Snakehead in China…
    Marc Hoeferlin
    • People Smuggler in Calais
    David Bryan
    David Bryan
    • People Smuggler in Calais
    • (as Dave Bryan)
    Jiannan Tian
    • Smuggled Chinese Immigrant
    Xiang Li
    Xiang Li
    • Smuggled Chinese Immigrant
    Shu Ping Wang
    • Snakehead in UK
    Li Qing Yang
    • Snakehead in UK
    Man Qin Wei
    • Chio
    Raquel Marques
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      • Jez Lewis
      • Hsiao-Hung Pai(work of)
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      Had no scripted dialog.
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      Referenced in Shooting 'Ghosts' (2006)

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    The title of Nick Broomfield's new film is deliberately ambiguous; ghosts being the disparaging term the Chinese use to describe white westerners and (possibly) a reference to the invisibility of poorly paid, unprotected non-British workers who work in slave conditions in the food industry.

    Three years ago such workers made the news, briefly, when 23 illegal Chinese immigrants drowned in Morecambe Bay while digging for cockles late one evening. As the waters rose around them, they rang their families to say goodbye, unaware they'd have been better off ringing 999.

    Their deaths inspired the notorious Broomfield to make a film in which he re-enacts the events leading up to the disaster. In this he is assisted by a cast of amateurs, many of whom are themselves illegal immigrants, and the film's star Ai Qi Lin, a non-professional, whom we follow through various low-skilled jobs in the food industry in a bid to pay back the $25,000 she borrowed from 'Snakeheads' to smuggle her into the country.

    There are times when she must wonder why she bothered, forced as she is to live in a two-bedroom house with 11 other Chinese immigrants, all of whom are sworn at and spat on by their neighbours. The landlord is no better: he overcharges them.

    And yet, for all that., despite the horrific ending, Ghosts isn't entirely bereft of hope. After all, if nothing else, its impact is such that it should force us all to question our own appetite for cheap food and embarrass supermarkets into altering the way their products are produced.
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    • Mar 1, 2007

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      • January 12, 2007 (United Kingdom)
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