Living up to the hype, this wonderful movie is about a Chinese family who refuse to tell the grandmother about her terminal illness and stage a wedding so everyone can say goodbye. Rapper/actress Awkwafina is terrific as the adoring granddaughter, and so is everyone else.
Director/writer Lulu Wang says the story is "based on a true lie," because her family did something similar. She had been trying for a while to get the movie made before it became a 2016 segment of This American Life on public radio, which helped get it to Hollywood.
The composer is Alex Weston.
Awkwafina, whose birth name is Nora Lum, was my favorite part of Crazy Rich Asians.
Don't take my word for it. Rotten Tomatoes' critics' average is still 99% and its audiences' 87. Now streaming at the usual outlets, it almost went direct to video, as described in this article. Jack and I saw it August 7, 2019.
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