Asian American stereotypes are gleefully mixed, mismatched and tossed out with yesterday's bowl of tea in this scrappy, candy-colored, self-conscious, satirical thriller by cheerful iconoclasts Quentin Lee and Justin Lin, UCLA film-school grads who both emigrated to the U.S. as youngsters and share a blithe disinterest in the more traditional stories of immigrant assimilation and nostalgia. Two stories unfold and occasionally intersect in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley, a prosperous melting pot of Asian American cultures. In the first, wan, unhappy Katherine (Jeanne Chin), a Vietnamese refugee married to a prosperous, self-centered, body-building businessm...
Released:
1998
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins