- Overview
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
- Release Date
20 November 1998
- DirectingWalter Salles
- Budget
$2,900,000.00
- Revenue
$5,596,708.00
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