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Sand Pebbles

2015-06-06 · 95 min · Not rated

Drama

A retiring primary school teacher and her three teenage grandchildren of different cultural backgrounds cope with the outbreak of the deadly SARS virus in Hong Kong in 2003.

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Directors
Clifford Choi
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Countries
Hong Kong
Status
Released

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Nina Paw Hei-chingNina Paw Hei-chingGrandmother
Kitson ShumGwun
Choi Si-KeiNatalie
SimCMoon

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