Hi, Mom (2021) on Netflix
After Li Huanying is seriously hurt in a car accident, Jia Xiaoling is thrown back to 1981 and becomes a close friend of her young mother. She tries to make her happy.
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- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.9/103,785 votes
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Plot summary
Grief-stricken after her mother Li Huanying is badly hurt in a car accident in 2001, Jia Xiaoling is thrown back in time to 1981. There she meets Li Huanying as a young woman, before she was a mother, and the two become close friends. Jia Xiaoling believes she fell short as a daughter in her own time, so she devotes herself to making Li Huanying happy in 1981. She sets her up with Shen Guanglin, the son of a factory manager, hoping that a better husband and a better daughter will give her mother a better life than the first time around.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hi, Mom (2021)
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- Hi, Mom is drawn from the story of Jia Ling's own mother, also named Li Huanying, who died in 2001 shortly after Jia Ling started college; Jia Ling made the film as a tribute to her.
- In late March 2021, Hi, Mom passed Wonder Woman (2017) to become the highest-grossing film by a solo female director of all time, a record it held until Barbie overtook it in 2023.
