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Closed Caption; Deleted scenes with optional commentary; Director audio commentary; Behind-the-scenes featurette; Sundance diary
Full Product DetailsDisc #1 -- Saving Face
1. Start [12:20]
2. Vending-Machine Meeting [2:35]
3. The Family Shame [4:55]
4. First Date in Three Weeks [8:39]
5. Trying to Fall [8:02]
6. Definitely Maybe [5:24]
7. Hunt for a Husband [9:51]
8. Meeting Mother [11:20]
9. The Grandma Scare [:43]
10. Not a Flesh Wound [5:05]
11. For Father's Honor [6:04]
12. Lost...and Found [8:41]
An Asian-American woman and her mother both find their private lives are becoming a family matter in this romantic comedy-drama. Wilhelmina Pang (Michelle Krusiec) is a surgeon living in Manhattan whose mother (Joan Chen) is eager for her to settle down with a nice man and get married. What Ma doesn't know is that Wilhelmina happens to be a lesbian -- or rather, Ma prefers not to acknowledge it, since she once walked in on Wilhelmina and her girlfriend several years before. As it happens, Wilhelmina is looking for someone special in her life, and thinks she may have found her in Vivian (Lynn Chen), a beautiful dancer, but a fear of commitment and a desire to keep her medical career on track is making their relationship problematic. As Wilhelmina tries to get her love life in order, her mother's shifts into crisis mode. Ma, a 48-year-old widow, has just discovered she's pregnant, and her staunchly traditional father (Li Zhiyu) will not allow her back into the home they share until she's married someone respectable. Unwilling to name the father of her baby, Ma is forced to move in with Wilhelmina, and while enduring the emotional roller coaster of pregnancy she is being pressured by friends and relatives to marry Cho (Nathaniel Geng), a sweet but boring man she doesn't especially like. Saving Face was the first feature film from writer and director Alice Wu. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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May 30, 2007: This movie is definately one of my favourite movies. It portrayed the lives of an Asian-descended family with comedy, realism, and a good pitch of angst. It also shows some of the difficulties that traditions can hold over many people over "taboo" things. Not only was this a wonderfully entertaining movie about both a love story and a life story, but it showed an intricate family system that came to life all its own. This is a movie that can be watched with your family.
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September 28, 2006: This movie was sweetly comedic and angsty at the right moments. I loved how it sacastically portrayed some Asian stereotypes and the actresses are beautiful and talented. It just made you feel good and the more you thought about it, one can't label a movie by the type of relationship it focuses on--straight, gay, lesbian--but the portrayal of a life story.