Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21103 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-02-09
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 176 minutes

DVD Description
Iron Road is the epic adventure of Little Tiger (Sun Li), a poor Chinese boy who yearns to make his fortune building the railroad through the Rocky Mountains, the very same place where his father mysteriously disappeared years before. The railroad tycoon, Alfred Nichol (Sam Neill) is facing bankruptcy and dispatches his playboy son James (Luke MacFarlane) to China to recruit workers at rock-bottom wages. There, James meets the dissolute local recruiter (Peter O'Toole) and Little Tiger, who saves his life in a fight with a vicious gang lord. In return, James hires the kid. In the railway camp, Little Tiger battles prejudice, treachery and a surging attraction to James, so powerful it unlocks his dark secret--that 'he' is actually a beautiful young woman who has disguised herself to survive in a man's world. Now everything is at stake--her life, her love for James, and her quest for the truth about her father.

Synopsis
IRON ROAD is a China-Canada TV co-production set during the epic construction of the coast to coast Canadian railroads. At the end of the 19th century, many Chinese attempted to escape from poverty by fleeing to North America, where they were employed as underpaid workers by the companies responsible for building the railroads. Among them is Little Tiger, a street urchin determined to find her father, who went missing in the Rocky Mountains. Very courageously, she pretends to be a boy and sails to the New World. Once there Little Tiger comes in touch with the inhuman reality in which her fellow Chinese workers are forced to live. She then finds herself falling in love with the most unlikely person; the railroad tycoon’s playboy son.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, Moving, Watch It
I bought this DVD because Peter O'Toole is in the movie. As always he does nothing less than burn his performance into your memory. However, his role isn't enormous but the movie swept me up completely anyway. The central performance from Sun Li is stunning. She plays a girl pretending to be a boy in order to survive her harsh surroundings. The character has so many facets - at times heartbreakingly romantic, but she is also incredibly tough. to You would think that the 'girl pretending to be a boy' thing had been done to death, but this movie does so much with the form. The music is beautiful and certainly adds to the poignancy of the picture. The movie is in 2 parts, each about 90 minutes long. Not a boring moment. The cinematography is outstanding. I thoroughly recommend this movie.