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Saving Face

2005, Movie, R, 97 mins

SAVING FACE
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Writer-director Alice Wu's witty combination of culture-clash farce and romantic comedy is a breezy charmer with an engaging air of effortless confidence. American-born surgical resident Wil (Michelle Krusiec) has made her conservative Chinese-immigrant family proud in all respects but one: She's pushing 30 and still hasn't found a nice boy to marry. Wil indulges her widowed mother (Joan Chen), a dutiful daughter who lives with her old-country parents (Guang Lan Koh, Jin Wang... read more leave a comment
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Saving Face follows Wilhemina, a young Chinese-American surgeon as she deals with her unwed mother's pregnancy, and the obligations of her dancer girlfriend Vivian. Wil struggles with allocating time between her mother, who is shunned by the Chinese-American community for being pregnant and unwed and thus has come to live with Wil, and her girlfriend, Vivian, whom she presents to her mother as only a friend. At the same time, Wil's mother must decide whether the demands of her father's reputations, or the demands of her own heart, are more important.
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Length: 01:59
Posted: 7/23/2009
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Saving Face movie trailer - starring Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Jin Wang, Lynn Chen, Guang Lan Koh. Directed by Alice Wu. Theatrical Release Date: 5/27/2005 Genre: Drama Rating: R
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Length: 01:53
Posted: 3/17/2008
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When 48-year-old widow Hwei-Lan Gao (Joan Chen) informs her less-than understanding father she's pregnant, he banishes her from Flushing until she remarries or proves Immaculate Conception. With nowhere else to go, Hwei-Lan moves in with her grown daughter, Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a Manhattan doctor who doesn't want a roommate, especially since she's met Viv (Lynn Chen), her sexy young lover. So Wil does what any dutiful child with an expectant, unmarried mother on her hands would do: she proceeds to set Hwei-Lan up with every eligible bachelor in town.
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Length: 01:37:15
Posted: 9/18/2008
In this touching family comedy, a girl (Michelle Krusiec) tells her mother (Joan Chen) that she's a lesbian, and her mother reveals a surprise of her own.
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Posted: 12/19/2009
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Year: 2005
Rated R

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Cast
Joan Chen: Ma
Michelle Krusiec: Wil
Lynn Chen: Vivian Shing
Jin Wang: Grandpa
Guang Lan Koh: Grandma
Ato Essandoh: Jay

 

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