Dark Matter (2007)
Liu Xing, a Chinese scholarship boy, recently arrived in Salt Lake City as a graduate student of cosmology. He will be studying in Professor Reiser’s prestigious program. Liu Xing is proud of his parents back in China and he works hard to fulfill their dreams. The program’s graduate students work together on projects to extend Reiser’s theory of the origins and evolution of the universe. Liu Xing is a good student until his theories diverge from Reiser’s. Is Reiser or the department going to recognize Liu Xing for his brilliance and talents? Joanna Silver, the young man’s benefactor can she intervene? —
Director: Shi-Zheng Chen
Actors: Aidan Quinn, Blair Brown, Erick Avari, Jodi Russell, Liu Ye, Meryl Streep, Peng Chi
Country: United States