Synopsis
With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.
Scores
Popularity Percentile (Year)
29.9%
Box Office Percentile (Year)
19.6%
Critic Consensus
86.7% Fresh • 45 critic reviews
Critic reception is largely positive, with 87% of 45 logged reviews marked Fresh. Across reviews, critics repeatedly emphasize visually striking, gritty, emotional. Most critics frame the film as an effective delivery of its core style and intent.
visually strikinggrittyemotionalcharacter-drivenfamily-friendlythought-provokingromanticlighthearted
Aggregated Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes critic score81.0
RT critic review count58
Rotten Tomatoes audience score86.0
RT audience rating count2,500
IMDb rating7.2
IMDb votes4,153
Box Office ?
| Category | Year | Reported | Inflation Adjusted |
|---|
| Domestic | 2001 | $110,134 | $195,082 |
| International | 2001 | $91,113 | $161,390 |
| Worldwide | 2001 | $201,670 | $357,221 |
Earnings / Profitability
Estimated net revenues and net expenses for films based on reported and estimated numbers. This income statement should be considered most viable for the first 24 months after the inital movie's release (ie after most lucrative pay windows).
| Category | Year | Reported | Inflation Adjusted |
|---|
| Revenues |
| Theatrical Net Revenue | 2001 | $91,512 | $162,097 |
| Digital Rentals ? | 2001 | N/A | N/A |
| Digital Purchases ? | 2001 | N/A | N/A |
| Physical Rentals ? | 2001 | $3,428,000 | $6,072,070 |
| Physical Purchases ? | 2001 | $5,121,000 | $9,070,907 |
| TV & Streaming Revenue | 2001 | $55,067 | $97,541 |
| Total Revenues | 2001 | $8,695,579 | $15,402,615 |
| Expenses |
| Budget ? | 2001 | $250,000 (est) | $442,829 (est) |
| Print & Advertising (P&A) ? | 2001 | $161,000 (est) | $285,182 (est) |
| Participations | 2001 | $348,000 | $616,418 |
| Residuals ? | 2001 | $626,000 | $1,108,844 |
| Interest & Overhead | 2001 | $50,000 | $88,566 |
| Total Expenses | 2001 | $1,435,000 | $2,541,838 |
| Movie Net Profit or Loss | 2001 | $7,260,579 | $12,860,777 |
Similar Movies
| Poster | Movie | Year | Match | Overall | Est. Profit |
|---|
 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Shared genres: 2 | 97.0 | $138,545,801 |
 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Shared genres: 2 | 96.5 | $176,939,618 |
 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Shared genres: 2 | 96.5 | $191,619,469 |
 | Your Name. | 2017 | Shared genres: 2 | 96.1 | $-703,056,942 |
 | Big | 1988 | Shared genres: 2 | 95.9 | $84,885,693 |
Tooltips
- Budget Estimated using Machine Learning
- Digital Rentals: PVOD, VOD, & On-Demand
- Marketing & distribution costs to release Movie in Theaters. Includes: Online & Offline Ads, Posters, Trailer Production, and physical or digital copies (formerly "prints") sent to cinemas.
- Net Digital Purchase Revenue
- Net Revenues for Physical Rentals: VHS, DVD, BluRay (when appropriate)
- Physical Purchases: VHS $2,243,000, DVD $2,878,000, BluRay $0
- Reported or Estimated Net Budget (after tax, product placements, & grants)
- Theatrical box office grosses split into Domestic, International, and Worldwide totals.
- Union-modeled residuals using SAG-AFTRA and WGA schedules as a simplified estimate proxy.
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Budget Tooltip
Reported or Estimated Net Budget (after tax, product placements, & grants)
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