Finishing the Game

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Finishing The Game

Directed by	Justin Lin
Produced by	Julie Asato Salvador Gatdula Justin Lin Joan Huang (executive producer) Jeffrey Gou (executive producer)
Written by	Josh Diamond
Starring	James Franco Roger Fan Sung Kang Dustin Nguyen McCaleb Burnett MC Hammer, Ron Jeremy Bella Thorne
Music by	Brian Tyler
Cinematography	Tom Clancey
Editing by	Greg Louie
Distributed by	IFC Films
Release date(s)	2007
Running time	88 mins
Country	United States
Language	English
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Finishing The Game, an Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival, is a 2007 mockumentary which focuses on Bruce Lee's final movie Game of Death. Lee died prior to finishing the movie, having shot only approximately 12 minutes of film. However, the rest of the film was finished using a Bruce Lee double and a new script. Finishing The Game is a comedy which satirizes the production of Lee's final film. The film was directed by Justin Lin, the director of the films Better Luck Tomorrow, Annapolis, and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Finishing The Game stars Roger Fan, Sung Kang, Dustin Nguyen, McCaleb Burnett, James Franco, MC Hammer, Ron Jeremy and Parry Shen. Its world premiere took place at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It was also selected as the opening night film at the 25th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the 23rd VC FilmFest in Los Angeles, the 30th Asian American International Film Festival in New York, the DisOrient Film Festival of Oregon, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, the 2007 D.C. Asian Pacific American Film Festival, and the 11th Annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival.