Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
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43% of critics liked it
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65% of users liked it
(929 ratings)
In Catfish In Black Bean Sauce, Paul Winfield and Mary Alice play an African-American couple who in the 1970's adopted two Vietnamese children, a brother and sister. 20 years on, the two kids have grown to adulthood; Dwayne (Chi Muoi Lo) has absorbed a great deal of black culture from his… More In Catfish In Black Bean Sauce, Paul Winfield and Mary Alice play an African-American couple who in the 1970's adopted two Vietnamese children, a brother and sister. 20 years on, the two kids have grown to adulthood; Dwayne (Chi Muoi Lo) has absorbed a great deal of black culture from his adopted parents and is engaged to an attractive African-American woman (Sanaa Lathan). His sister (Lauren Tom), however, feels more comfortable with Asian cultural paths and has married an older Asian man (Tzi Ma). The siblings have recently come in contact with their birth mother (Kieu Chinh), and are awaiting her first visit to the United States, which causes no small amount of personal, cultural and familial clashes. Catfish In Black Bean Sauce is the feature debut from writer/director Chi Muoi Lo, who also plays Dwane; it was a prize winner at the 1999 WorldFest/Houston Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Chi Moui Lo
- Written By
- Chi-Muoi Lo
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Jun 9, 2000 Wide
- Studio
- Iron Hill Pictures
Critic Reviews
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David Noh, Film Journal International
Initially creates a delightfully diverse world in which no one is really as they seem to appear.
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Cast
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Paul Winfield
as Harold
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Mary Alice
as Dolores
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Chi-Muoi Lo
as Dwayne
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Lauren Tom
as Mai
- Kieu Chinh
- Sanaa Lathan
- Tyler Christopher
- James Fox
- George Wallace (II)
- Wing Chen
- Chi Moui Lo
- Mark Daniel Cade
- Tzi Ma
