Saving Face

    Genre
    Comedy
  • |
    • Runtime
    97 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    R
  • |
    • Release Date
    2005
  • |
    • Countries
    USA
  • |
    • Languages
    English, Mandarin, Shanghainese
  • |
DIRECTED BY:
Alice Wu
WRITTEN BY:
Alice Wu
CAST INCLUDES:
Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Michelle Krusiec

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

A blending of found family and blood family, a Chinese-American lesbian is forced to help both herself and her mother – who shows up at her door unwed and pregnant – to save face when they have to confront their own traditional values and the values of a traditional society. Written and directed by Alice Wu (THE HALF OF IT, OVER THE MOON) in her feature debut, and starring Joan Chen (THE LAST EMPEROR, JUDGE DREDD, THE HOME SONG STORIES) and Michelle Krusiec (HOLLYWOOD, HAWAII FIVE-0, THE INVITATION). "Alice Wu's debut film is so deft, natural and exquisitely specific, it feels fresh" (Los Angeles Times).

SYNOPSIS

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.

Saving Face

    Genre
    Comedy
  • |
    • Runtime
    97 mins
  • |
    • Rated
    R
  • |
    • Release Date
    2005
  • |
    • Countries
    USA
  • |
    • Languages
    English, Mandarin, Shanghainese
  • |
DIRECTED BY
Alice Wu
WRITTEN BY
Alice Wu
CAST INCLUDES
Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Michelle Krusiec
A blending of found family and blood family, a Chinese-American lesbian is forced to help both herself and her mother – who shows up at her door unwed and pregnant – to save face when they have to confront their own traditional values and the values of a traditional society. Written and directed by Alice Wu (THE HALF OF IT, OVER THE MOON) in her feature debut, and starring Joan Chen (THE LAST EMPEROR, JUDGE DREDD, THE HOME SONG STORIES) and Michelle Krusiec (HOLLYWOOD, HAWAII FIVE-0, THE INVITATION). "Alice Wu's debut film is so deft, natural and exquisitely specific, it feels fresh" (Los Angeles Times).

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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