Happy Cleaners

While it hits a couple of bumps early on, it ultimately makes for a timely story about a family coping with changing cultural values.

Happy Cleaners is poignant and relatable but ultimately uplifting and a keen look at the lives of immigrant families.

When it comes to technical aspects, the film particularly shines with its cinematography.

Funny/revealing scenes include a takeout order for Hyunny, whose name is pronounced wrong six ways to Sunday, and Kevin's reaction...

It's a fairly lighthearted yet realistic pulse-taking of a phenomenon hardly limited to any particular U.S. ethic or generational group now: The sense that middle-class stability is a rug being slowly, inexorably pulled out from under us.

With genuine pathos, they examine the trials, tribulations and triumphs of a quartet of fascinating cinematic protagonists.

A poignant look at a Korean American family trying to make a life in America. It dives into how different generations look at things and by doing so looks at the country.

A movie built on expectations that it lets us cling to, even if we fear the filmmakers have no intention of giving we the viewers our wish or their characters an easy way out.

Directors Julian Kim and Peter S. Lee really tap into the immigrant experience with their film Happy Cleaners. It shows that experience from several different perspectives or generations.

...an indelible and intimate film that captures the wavering spirit of a particular family's nucleus. Fittingly, Happy Cleaners rinses and dries its revealing American immigrant messaging with candid absorption.