Transistor Love Story

Transistor Love Story

2001 · 115 min · ★ 6.9 · Comedy, Music, Drama, Romance

An aspiring singer leaves his pregnant bride a radio for company when he is drafted into the army; unfit for military life, the man goes AWOL and joins a pop music troupe but soon after his wife tracks him down his life spirals out of control.

Directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang · Written by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

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