Saving Mother Robot(2013)

Taipei, late Dec 2012. The city is going through an unprecedented winter heatwave, with temperatures in the 30s. Eight-year-old Tiger (Antoine) lives with his divorced mother, Cao Yi (Vivian Hsu), 36, who is struggling to make ends meet with her job as a magazine editor and reduced alimony payments from her ex-husband (Tang Kuo-chung). Tiger, who has a hyper-active imagination and sees his mother as a run-down robot who needs a new model, is not very bright at school and worries his art teacher (Mini Yang) with the dark pictures he draws in class.

Genre: Drama, Family

Director: Chia-Lin Chu

Actors: Vivian Hsu, Xiaoming Huang, Antoine, Eric Tsang, Mi Yang, Ti-Men Kan, Min Wu, Kung-Wei Lu, Cheryl Yang, Terri Kwan

Release date: 2013-08-09

Country of origin: Taiwan, Province of China

Length: 1h 26m

Ratings:

• 1.9/10