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Double Happiness
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| | | A Comedy About Growing Up and Moving Out.
Features: DVD
East clashes with West and generations collide in this comedy about a young Chinese woman struggling to appease her old-fashioned father, and at the same time pursue her modern dreams! Jade's parents want to see her happily married to a nice successful Chinese man, so they embark on a matchmaking mission. But Jade wants to make up her own mind. The problem is, telling them the truth about her secret romance with a Caucasian man, would break their hearts. For Jade, the choice between family and personal happiness is about to change her life forever. Starring Sandra Oh from the TV hit Grey's Anatomy and the acclaimed film Sideways, Double Happiness is a funny and bittersweet comedy with something for everyone!
"...a cogent and funny schmooze..." San Francisco Chronicle
"Rich in character..." Rita Kempley, Washington Post
"...engaging..." Shlomo Schwartzberg, Box Office Magazine
"...an appealing, feisty yarn enlivened by a sharp cast and unaffected direction." Variety
Editor's Note
An acclaimed coming-of-age tale about a young Chinese woman who tries to walk a tightrope between her parents' conservative values and her own modern goals. They want her to marry a nice Chinese man -- but she's in love with a... Caucasian! Winner of the Best Actress Award at the Canadian Genie Awards.
Plot Summary
Jade is a twenty-something Chinese-Canadian struggling actress. But she is caught between two worlds -- traditional and modern -- and this is affecting important aspects of her life, from the men she dates to how she fares at auditions. In terms of men, Jade reluctantly satisfies her parents' old world standards by letting them choose her dates, and even letting them decide how she'll look when she goes out. But on the sly, Jade's modern attitudes are reflected in the motorcycle jackets she wears, and her involvement in an interracial relationship. Meanwhile, on auditions, Jade would prefer to play non-"Asian" characters, but nonetheless finds herself being typecast at every turn. How will Jade rectify the dichotomies that are affecting her life -- without losing her family?
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Entertainment Reviews
| Double Happiness - DVD By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/16/2007 6:48 PM | |
Mina Shum, in her writer/director's notes on Double Happiness, makes her life story sound like a modern-day Book of Job: She's an unappreciated Chinese-Canadian twentysomething. She left home at 18 and didn't have any furniture. She worked at McDonald's. And she made a movie about all this. Well, cry me a river. Double Happiness is probably the most blatantly self-centered film I've seen all year. After all, when people say, "Write what you know," they don't mean, "Write about YOU YOU YOU!" The idea is to take a personal story and make it accessible to the masses. This movie is just one big, running, inside joke....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 4/17/2007 |
| Running Time: 87 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1994 | | Catalog ID: 1384 | | UPC: 00014381138429 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Alannah Ong | | Donald Fong | | Sandra Oh | | Stephen Chang | | Alison Grace - Editor | | Candice Dickens - Art Director | | Jill Haras - Art Director | | Michael Bjornson - Production Designer | | Mina Shum - Director | | Mina Shum - Writer | | Peter Wunstorf - Cinematographer | | Rose Lam Waddell - Producer | | Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Original Music By | | Stephen Hegyes - Producer |
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