The Joy Luck Club R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 4, 2002
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rosalind Chao & Ming-Na Wen | |
Performer: | France Nuyen, Tamlyn Tomita, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, Tsai Chin, Lauren Tom, Chao Li Chi & Victor Wong | |
Directed by | Wayne Wang | |
Edited by | Maysie Hoy | |
Screenwriting by | Amy Tan & Ronald Bass | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Patrick Markey, Amy Tan & Wayne Wang | |
Director of Photography: | Amir Mokri | |
Executive Production by | Oliver Stone & Janet Yang |
Entertainment Reviews:
Gives refreshing -- and bittersweet -- dimension to the age-old clash between generations.
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Washington Post
The masterful storytelling of the eight women in The Joy Luck Club, illuminated by each actress's elegant portrayal, make the film as resonating today as it did when it first hit theaters nearly eighteen years ago.
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Reel Talk Online
Rating: 4/5 --
Both sweeping and intimate, a lovely evocation of changing cultures and enduring family ties.
New York Times
...A rich, multi-course movie...
Sight and Sound
...Beautifully made and acted and emotionally moving....Visually, [the] film is splendid...
Variety
...Both sweeping and intimate, a lovely evocation of changing cultures and enduring family ties....The film is virtually stolen by Tsai Chin as the sly, acerbic Auntie Lindo...
New York Times
Hollywood has built its reputation on escapism. But with movies like The Joy Luck Club, stories drawn from the real world may yet prove to be more compelling.
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
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 her place in a mahjong club. The three other members, like her mother, were all born in China before the 1949 revolution. When June learns that she has two half sisters in China, she plans a trip to meet them. With this catalyst, the women begin to tell stories, not just about but their own mothers and their lives in China, but also about their often strained relationships with their Americanized daughters. The flashbacks to China are dramatic, and the stories are heartbreaking. As the film progresses, June learns about a culture that's supposedly her own but that she can touch only through the commonality of the mother-daughter bond. It is this nexus that makes the movie work. There are multiple points of view, but they are always connected by the universal desire for one generation of women to pass on their hopes for a better life to their daughters. This feeling, without being cloying or overly sentimental, underlines the emotional tales in this moving, well-acted, and beautifully staged drama.
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- Sales Rank: 16,434
- UPC: 786936182583
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