Alice Wu has done what Lee Ang has done for Chinese directors and actors. A poignant tale of cultural clashes versus the fulfillment of traditional Chinese expectations, the film talks about a middle age widow who becomes unexpectedly pregnant much to the chagrin of her professor father who worries about losing face. Meanwhile, her grown-up surgeon daughter is battling coming public of her lesbianism as well as mending the broken fence when she admits to her mother of that.
Interweaved in between are plenty of East-meets-West humor and impeccably fine acting coming from the stellar cast, most notably Joan Chen's role as the widow who's funny and unnerving ways also show a vulnerable and lonesome side when her characters decide whether to conform to her authoritarian father's ways once again. Daughter Wil played by Michelle Krusiec and her lesbian lover played by Lynn Chen also lends great support to the film which is ultimately bittersweet.
Interweaved in between are plenty of East-meets-West humor and impeccably fine acting coming from the stellar cast, most notably Joan Chen's role as the widow who's funny and unnerving ways also show a vulnerable and lonesome side when her characters decide whether to conform to her authoritarian father's ways once again. Daughter Wil played by Michelle Krusiec and her lesbian lover played by Lynn Chen also lends great support to the film which is ultimately bittersweet.