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Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Joy Luck ClubWriter Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent SmokeTwo cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many probl...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Chan Is MissingThe film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her h...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent A Thousand Years of Good PrayersAuggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to h...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Blue in the FaceSan Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors. A fortune teller has told her this is t...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Dim Sum: A Little Bit of HeartThe discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she wit...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Last HolidayA Korean-American man cares for his ailing mother and tries to master her traditional Korean dishes.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Coming Home AgainDocumentary about Cecilia Chiang, "the mother of the true Chinese cuisine."
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Soul of a BanquetA girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Because of Winn-Dixie