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Blu-ray - 2025
A queer romantic comedy set in vibrant, multicultural New York City, Alice Wu's irresistible feature debut breathed fresh life into the genre by combining snappy dialogue and a swooning love story with a poignant narrative about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other. Just as Wil, a harried young surgical resident, begins a promising romance with the flirtatious dancer Vivian, her life is turned upside down when her more traditional Chinese mother unwed and unexpectedly pregnant moves in with her, forcing both women to confront the generational and cultural barriers that have long troubled their relationship. Both embracing and cleverly subverting rom-com conventions, Wu delivers a bighearted ode to the Chinese American ...diaspora, and the liberating joy of living one's truth.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Queer films
Romantic comedy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Films de fiction
Films queers
Comédies romantiques (Films) - Published
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection
[2025]
- Language
- English
Chinese - Other Authors
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- Edition
- Criterion collection
- Item Description
- Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
Wide screen.
Special features: Audio commentary; interviews; deleated scenes; featurettes; theatrical trailer; essay. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray, wide screen; DTS HD 5.1 master audio; requires Blu-ray player.
- ISBN
- 9798886073218