Modern businessman Da Ming (Pu Cun Xin) reluctantly checks up on his aging father, and retarded adult younger brother Er Ming (Jiang Wu) in Beijing, where the two men run a traditional bathhouse. Neighbors soak, chat, sip, and scrub, as others have done for thousands of years. But the old man is getting frail. And without Da Ming's help, a lovely age-old tradition will vanish in the name of ''modernizing.'' What would dry up, too, Zhang demonstrates in deftly arranged scenes, is a kind of openness and communal good will. Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, ''Shower'' sparkles with joy.
'SHOWER' HEADS Bathing buddies He Zheng, Lao Lin, and Lao Wu clean up
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ADetails Rated: PG-13; Length: 92 Minutes; Genre: Foreign Language; With: Jiang Wu and Pu Cun Xin; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
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