Saving Face with Michelle Krusiec: DVD Cover

    Saving Face Director: Alice Wu Cast: Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Li Zhiyu

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/18/2005
    • Original Release: 2004
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 3,811

    Viewer Rating: (5 ratings)

    Detailed Rating: "Emotional" See All

     
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    Scenes

    Features

    Closed Caption; Deleted scenes with optional commentary; Director audio commentary; Behind-the-scenes featurette; Sundance diary

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    Scene Index

    Disc #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]

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    Editorial Reviews

    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

    Customer Reviews

    Great little Gem!by Jenn0710

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    December 04, 2008: I recently saw this movie for the first time and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it to be well acted and endearing. The plot was adorable and there were some real laughs in there as well.

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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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