Saving Face 2005 - Saving Face Reviews, Box Office, Credits, Release Dates

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SAVING FACE (2005) - R

Country:	United States
Genre:	Comedy, Romance

Credits

Production Company:	Columbia Pictures Corporation Forensic Films Greenestreet Films Overbrook Entertainment
Director:	Alice Wu
Producer:	James Lassiter Will Smith Teddy Zee
Exec Producer:	Scott Macaulay Robin O'Hara John Penotti
Writer: Screenplay:	Alice Wu
Cast:	Joan Chen Lynn Chen Michelle Krusiec
	Guang Lan Koh Jin Wang
Casting Director:	Jaclyn Brodsky Heidi Griffiths
Production Manager:	Bergen Swanson
Editor:	Susan Graef Sabine Hoffmann
Production Design:	Daniel Ouellette
Dir of Photography:	Harlan Bosmajian
Costume Designer:	Jill Newell

Synopsis: Set amid New York's immigrant Chinese community, story follows Wil a Chinese-American surgeon in her late 20s who finds her life turned upside down when her single mother arrives on her doorstep pregnant. Subsequently, Wil must take her mother in and play matchmaker in an attempt to find a husband so the mother can return unashamed to her Chinese friends and family.

Comment: Zee discovered Wu's screenplay in 2000 while serving as a judge for a Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment competition.

Other Reviews:

Entertainment Weekly [B-]

L.A. Daily News [3/4]

Los Angeles Times (Carina Chocano)

New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)

New York Post (Lou Lumenick) [3/4]

The New York Times (Stephen Holden)

Variety at Sundance 2005


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