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"Shanghai Dreams" is a Chinese film from the mid-'00s. The film takes place during the early portion of the 1980s and focuses on a Shanghai family that is sent to work in a Guizhou factory for China's "Third Front." The father, whom is obsessed with making it back to Shanghai in order to provide a better quality of life for his clan, does his best at quashing any potential romance between his daughter and a Guizhou worker. "Shanghai Dreams" has a total running time of two hours and one minute. It features dialogue in both the Mandarin and Shanghainese languages.