Central Station (1998) on Netflix
Dora writes letters for illiterate customers at Rio's Central Station. When a customer dies, Dora takes in the woman's son Josué and agrees to help him find his father.
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Plot summary
Dora, a retired schoolteacher, earns her living at Rio de Janeiro's Central Station by writing letters for illiterate customers for a fee. Embittered, she has little patience for them, and some letters she never mails, stashing them in a drawer or tearing them up. Ana asks her to write to her husband, Jesus, so that their nine-year-old son Josué can meet him at last. Ana is struck and killed by a car outside the station, and Dora takes the boy in. She then decides to help Josué find the father he has never known, and the two of them travel from Rio toward northeastern Brazil, where Jesus last lived.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Central Station (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Fernanda Montenegro became the first Brazilian actor ever nominated for lead actress at both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, for playing Dora in Central Station.
- Cruzeiro do Nordeste, a district of Sertânia in Pernambuco, Brazil, stood in for the film's fictional town of Bom Jesus do Norte.
- Central Station became the highest-grossing Brazilian film in the United States at the time, taking $6.5 million to beat the $3 million of 1976's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, until City of God passed it with $7.5 million in 2002.
