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) and never learned English, by regularly making the trip from Manhattan to Queens to attend community get-togethers where well-meaning friends of the family try to fix her up with their successf...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins