It is never too late to fall in love for the first time. Writer-director Alice Wu's debut film is a heartwarming and heartbreaking romantic comedy about family tradition and changing times. Michelle Krusiec gives an outstanding performance as Wilhelmina a doctor in a Manhattan hospital who returns to Flushing's Chinatown every Friday night to participate in her extended family's weekly dance mixer. While her mother (Joan Chen) and the other women try to set her up with elig
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play It is never too late to fall in love for the first time Writer-director Alice Wu&39;s debut film is a heartwarming and heartbreaking romantic comedy about family tradition and changing times Michelle Krusiec gives an outstanding performance as Wilhelmina a doctor in a Manhattan hospital who returns to Flushing&39;s Chinatown every Friday night to participate in her extended family&39;s weekly dance mixer While her mother (Joan Chen) and the other women try to set her up with eligible bachelors Wil falls for Vivian (Lynn Chen) a beautiful young dancer who feels the attraction as well As the two women contemplate a possible relationship Wil&39;s mother who is nearing fifty reveals she is pregnant but she will not tell anyone who the father is Wil&39;s grandfather (Jin Wang) disowns his daughter for the shame she is bringing the family - he feels he has "lost face" in the community -forcing Wil to take in her mother and care for her in a reversal of generational roles and responsibility But just as her mother remains secretive of who the father of her baby is Wil keeps her lesbianism a secret as well Official Selection at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals
Heartwarming romantic comedy about family, tradition, and changing times. Michelle Krusiec play Wilhelmina, a doctor in a Manhattan hospital who returns to Flushing's Chinatown every Friday night to participate in her extended family's weekly dance mixer. While her mother (Joan Chen) and the other women try to set her up with eligible bachelors, Wil falls for Vivian (Lynn Chen), a beautiful young dancer who feels the attraction as well. As the two women contemplate a possible relationship, Wil's mother, who is nearing fifty, reveals she is pregnant, but she will not tell anyone who the father is. Wil's grandfather (Jin Wang) disowns his daughter for the shame she is bringing the family - he feels he has 'lost face' in the community - forcing Wil to take in her mother and care for her in a reversal of generational roles and responsibility. But just as her mother remains secretive of who the father of her baby is, Wil keeps her lesbianism a secret as well.
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