Saving Face
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alice Wu
Joan Chen
Michelle Krusiec
Lynn Chen
Jessica Hecht
Li Zhiyu
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
For 28-year-old New Yorker Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang, life is a juggling act between a promising career as a surgeon and her responsibilities as a dutiful daughter. Like the #7 train she takes to visit her Chinese family on a weekly basis, Wil is perpetually in transit between two worlds. The expectations of Flushing, Queens society she is from and the desires that alienate her from it have made Wil content to live below the surface--even if it means playing an inadvertent game of charades with her widowed mother and the world Ma represents. The masquerade is comic even in its pain as Wil tolerates Ma's weekly set ups with eligible Chinese-American boys at the Friday Chinese socials; but it quickly becomes a farce when Ma's mask cracks first. One night, Wil comes home to find Ma on her doorstep--pregnant. Disgraced by the Chinese community, and with no where else to go, Ma moves in with her daughter, making it difficult for Wil to nurture a budding relationship with gorgeous dancer Vivian. As her carefully compartmentalized worlds collide, Wil is forced to find her mother a husband, placate her girlfriend, and choose between breaking a cycle of keeping up appearances, or risk losing the girl she loves.
Director
Alice Wu
Cast
Joan Chen
Michelle Krusiec
Lynn Chen
Jessica Hecht
Li Zhiyu
Guang Lan Koh
Ato Essandoh
David Shih
Brian Yang
Nathanael Geng
Mao Zhao
Luoyong Wang
Clare Sum
Qian Luo
Wang Jin
Richard Chang
Ruth Zhang
Jackson Ning
Frank Decurtis
Crew
Donna Battersby
Harlan Bosmajian
Jaclyn Brodsky
Mariela Comitini
Anthony Cox
Heather M Daniels
Carrie Fix
Angela Gallagher
Susan Graef
Heidi Griffiths
Mariana Hellmund
Sabine Hoffmann
Terry Ladin
James Lassiter
Scott Macaulay
Jeff Morin
Jill Newell
Colleen Nowers
Robin O'hara
Dan Ouellette
John Penotti
Adam Roffman
Anton Sanko
Mylene Santos
Collin Smith
Will Smith
Abigail Stowe
Bergen Swanson
Bergen Swanson
Noah Vivekanand Timan
Noah Vivekanand Timan
Bill Trautvetter
Alice Wu
Teddy Zee
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer May 27, 2005
Released in United States on Video October 18, 2005
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States January 2005
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (New American Cinema) May 19-June 12, 2005.
Released in United States Summer May 27, 2005
Released in United States on Video October 18, 2005
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (New American Cinema) May 19-June 12, 2005.)
Released in United States January 2005 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (American Spectrum) January 20-30, 2005.)
