The Joy Luck Club (1993)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 30 Fresh: 27 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Synopsis: After the successful independent features about Chinese-American life DIM SUM and EAT A BOWL OF TEA, director Wayne Wang took on the daunting task of adapting Amy Tan's sprawling, multigenerational best-seller THE JOY LUCK CLUB. After her mother's death, June (Ming-Na Wen) is asked to take... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Rosalind Chao, France Nuyen, Tamlyn Tomita, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu
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At the end of the press screening, Disney's publicists handed out Kleenex to the critics, an effective marketing tool but one that trivilaize the picture, relegating it to the status of a three-handkerchief women's melodrama.
12/18/06
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02/09/06
The pleasure of seeing an underrepresented group on-screen is undercut by the stereotyped approach to almost all involved.
08/14/03
Both sweeping and intimate, a lovely evocation of changing cultures and enduring family ties.
05/20/03
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Affirms our respect for the arduous spiritual journeys of mothers and daughters.
06/29/02
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