Tsai Chin,
Kieu Chinh,
Lisa Lu,
France Nuyen,
Rosalind Chao
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Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the clash between generations. ... read more
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Release Date: September 8, 1993
DVD Release Date: June 4, 2002
Stats: 1,375 reviews
A very long movie about 4 Chinese Women, one who is dead and the other 3 who were best friends, also stories about each one's daughters telling of events in there lives and there daughters. It's enjoyable and interesting. 4 Stars
Brilliant ensemble cast with seamless representation of intertwining stories. I know that as a Chinese-American, I should find these stories identifiable - and I do to some extent - but I also think they end melodramatically for a happy effect. I don't share the same catharsis.
Based on the novel by Amy Tan, about four elderly Chinese women who left China for America and their relationships with their American born daughters. Each relationship is strained because of the hardships that each mother had endured. How come Andrew McCarthy never ages?
This is a great film that takes you into the lives of these women. Each story is different. I love it!!! Mothers and daughters...watch it together!!!
I will admit to seeing this movie in the name of "my 1000th review". This movie is about a bunch of Asian chicks that have bad relationships with everything. Not terrible though.
doesn't even compare to the novel but ming-na does her best. and this movie just reaffirms my love for waverly JONG.
Decent. I liked the book, but this movie didn't make much of an impression on me.
The film boasts quite an ensemble yet the performances failed to translate onscreen. What works in its favour are Rachel Portmanā(TM)s work on the score and the narrative from Amy Tanā(TM)s novel. These small vignettes come from the perspectives of four mothers and their respecti... read more
A touching and fascinating assortment of family tales. I read the book in high school and thought it was boring, but watching it now, I realize the value of the stories and how they portray how new generations conflict with such deeply rooted traditions and cultures. It would mak... read more
Four different actresses play the aunties in their youth, which sometimes keeps us struggling to keep the stories straight. That we do is a tribute to the power of Tan's theme about the miscommunicati...
One of the most touching and moving of the year's films. Full Review
It's ravishing to look it, a truly gorgeous object. But it is not deep. Full Review
Gives refreshing -- and bittersweet -- dimension to the age-old clash between generations. Full Review
It's fascinating and satisfying the way the diverse threads are knitted together into a single tapestry. Full Review
Poignant tale of Chinese-American moms, daughters. Full Review
...not only fails to give the novel cinematic stature; it denigrates the delicate beauty of the book itself. Full Review
Well mounted adaptation of best seller.
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-handke... Full Review
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