Lee's young actors shine with talent and personality, but the film's gravitas lies in the wisdom and insight of Angela's loving father, so beautifully played by the distinguished veteran James Shigeta.
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Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
(It) notably liberated itself from the fusty tradition that a sex comedy should either titillate or tickle an audience.
The gallery of eccentric ex-lovers provides a few yuks, but the fact that the film's trajectory sees going from sexuality-owning independence to conventional respectability as a quantum leap is remarkably depressing, even if Angela's final resolve complicates such an easy progression.