Jia Honsheng was a movie star in China until drug addiction derailed his life and his career. Quitting is all about his downward spiral and eventual recovery, but the specifics of his experience could stand in for a much larger story about the clash of cultures.

Quitting is a remarkable film in many ways. The film, staged as a theatrical production and starring Jia Hongsheng as himself, plays with fantasy and reality and perspective. All the people in Quitting play themselves -- Jia's parents, his friends, his sister, the doctors and patients at a psychiatric hospital and even his director, Zhang Yang.
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