Sandra Oh, Alannah Ong, Stephen Chang
Jade Li is a twenty-two-year-old aspiring actress struggling to balance the traditional expectations of her Chinese family with the realities of living in the Western world. Jade is an irreverent, che...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 17, 2007
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October 6, 2007This is one of my favorite movies, really funny and clever look at a generational family having a bit of culture shock.
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October 27, 2009I caught some of this on IFC and really liked it. Good, early work from Sandra Oh. I want to see this in its entirety.
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May 24, 2009On my favourit movies. The pressures of living in our Canadian society and holding our traditional values.
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March 7, 2009It had some very funny moments, but I absolutely hated the ending. I think it was a tragicomedy, because the last half an hour was just depressing. I thought Sandra Oh and Stephen Chang were great, and Oh's character's story of aspiring to become an actress was very interesting, ...( read more)
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June 30, 2008An engrossing, and enderaring film, with a wonderful performance from Sandro Oh, a great soundtrack and sharp writing, about the suffocating pressure and struggle of traditional culture and expecations and personal desire (classic themes in Chinese a...(read more)nd every literat...( read more)
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June 18, 2008i like sandra oh in this movie; i just don't like the seeming anti climatic ending of the movie...i was expecting more, and yet, it just abruptly ended, and i was left to imagine what would happen to Jade now that she's decided to live on her own. I found the characterization of...( read more)
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February 18, 2008It's kind of a chick-flick. But I'm weird and I like those once in a while. There's some likeable characters here, and even the ones who aren't so likeable are still very believable.
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