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In this culture-clashing comedy, a mother ashamed of her daughter’s homosexuality becomes in turn the shame of her father when at age 48, after the death of her husband, she gets pregnant by an unnamed source. What unfurls is a far wittier rendition of My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a lesbian-Chinese twist. At the epicenter of denial and miscommunication is Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a surgeon on the fast track struggling with her identity against the stoic traditions of her immigrant family. Efforts to find her a husband through the Chinese community center go sideways, and it’s there she meets Vivian (Lynn Chen), a lithe dancer with New York City Ballet who’s coolly out about her sexuality. Complications arise when Wil’s mother (Joan Chen), after deciding to have the baby, is cut off from her father’s largesse and moves in with Wil, threatening the couple’s closeted bliss. Novice director Alice Wu delivers the cross-cutting humor (gender, generation, culture, sexual orientation, and race) with gaiety and bite, Krusiec and Lynn Chen form a palpable bond, and Joan Chen has never been more radiant. In English and Mandarin with English subtitles. (91 minutes)
BY TOM MEEK
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