This intermittently charming look at East-meets-West culture shock in
contemporary Beijing seriously overreaches its grasp. It seems to be striving
for something almost James-ian in its portrait of callow Americans heedlessly
wounding themselves and others as they barrel headlong through cultures whose
intricacies they don't understand, but winds up looking more than a little
like an exotic episode of
Sex and the City. From the time she was a
child, Leah Quinn (Catherine Kellner) dreamed of romance and adventure in
far-away places. Now in her twenties, she's mastered Chinese and spent three
years living in Beijing, but is still looki...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins