Saving Face
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| Saving Face | |
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 Saving Face film poster |
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| Directed by | Alice Wu |
| Produced by | Will Smith James Lassiter Teddy Zee |
| Written by | Alice Wu |
| Starring | Michelle Krusiec Joan Chen Lynn Chen |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
| Release date(s) | September 12, 2004 |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Language | English and Chinese |
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The 2004 movie Saving Face tells the story of Wilhemina, a young Chinese-American surgeon, her pregnant mother, and her dancer girlfriend. Wil struggles with allocating her time between her mother, who, shunned by the Chinese-American community, has come to live with her, and her girlfriend, Vivian, whom she presents to her mother as only a friend. At the same time, her mother must decide whether the demands of her father's reputations, or the demands of her own heart, are more important.
Alice Wu, who directed the movie, wrote the script several years earlier, drawing on her own experiences "coming out." [citation needed] In 2001, the script won the CAPE screenwriting award, which led to the production of the film.
Featuring the New York Chinese-American community, the film is in a mixture of Mandarin Chinese and English.
- Tagline: It is never too late to fall in love for the first time.
[edit] Cast
- Michelle Krusiec — Wilhelmina Pang
- Lynn Chen — Vivian Shing
- Joan Chen — Ma
- Li Zhiyu — Wai Gung (grandfather)
- Shen Guanglan — Wai Po (grandmother)
- Jessica Hecht — Randi
- Ato Essandoh — Jay
- David Shih — Norman
- Brian Yang — Little Yu
- David Shih — Norman
- Nathaniel Geng — Stimson Cho
- Mao Zhao — Old Yu
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Saving Face Blog
- Saving Face at the Internet Movie Database
- AfterEllen.com Interview with Michelle Krusiec and Lynn Chen
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