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- FeminismHuman NatureSelf DiscoveryFriendshipParents and ChildrenMind and SoulSocietyFamily Relations more...
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- Drama
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- 90s
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- AsiaChinaSan Francisco
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- Girls' Night
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- Ensemble CastStrong Female Role
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- Based on Book
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The Joy Luck Club , 1993
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
USA
Profile of The Joy Luck Club
The mood of The Joy Luck Club is bittersweet, emotional, and sentimental. The plot centers around feminism, self discovery, and human nature. It is a drama movie. Stylistically, The Joy Luck Club stars a strong female character and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The Joy Luck Club is set in San Francisco and China. It happens in the 1990s. It is based on a book. The Joy Luck Club is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a girls' night.
Summary of The Joy Luck Club
After the successful independent features about Chinese-American life DIM SUM and EAT A BOWL OF TEA, director Wayne Wang took on the daunting task of adapting Amy Tan's sprawling, multigenerational best-seller THE JOY LUCK CLUB. After her mother's death, June (Ming-Na Wen) is asked to take her place in a mahjong club. The three other members, like her mother, were all born in China before the 1949 revolution. When June learns that she has two half sisters in China, she plans a trip to meet them. With this catalyst, the women begin to tell stories, not just about but their own mothers and their lives in China, but also about their often strained relationships with their Americanized daughters. The flashbacks to China are dramatic, and the stories are heartbreaking. As the film progresses, June learns about a culture that's supposedly her own but that she can touch only through the commonality of the mother-daughter bond. It is this nexus that makes the movie work. There are multiple points of view, but they are always connected by the universal desire for one generation of women to pass on their hopes for a better life to their daughters. This feeling, without being cloying or overly sentimental, underlines the emotional tales in this moving, well-acted, and beautifully staged drama.
Details
| Language: | English, Mandarin, Cantonese |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 25 November 1993 |
| Runtime: | 139 min |
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as Rose Hsu Jordan
as Jing-Mei 'June' Woo
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Critics Reviews
Rolling Stone
Hits hardest when it bypasses sentiment to ponder the inextricable mix of love and pain that comes with the ties that bind.
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- by: Peter Travers
Entertainment Weekly
A sumptuous two-and-a-quarter-hour emotional epic built on one lachrymose climax after another. What little plot there is exists only to set up the next Big Cry.
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- by: Ty Burr
Users Reviews
An interesting story about four Chinese friends and their families. During the movie we discover the life story of each one of the friends. Secrets from the past are revealed and the movie exposes us to Chinese culture. The movie emphasizes the...
- 08.September.2008
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- by: amit.alter
- amit.alter rated this movie
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