By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mina Shum
Starring: Chang Tseng | Colin Foo | Sandra Oh | Tsai Chin
Country: canada
Year: 2003
Running time: 90
IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0323103/combined
Michael says: “Mina Shum reunites with her DOUBLE HAPPINESS star, Sandra Oh for this funny, poignant and slightly sentimental look at several Asian-American families living in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Oh plays a single mother whose husband left her suddenly to care for her precious daughter, Mindy. In an attempt to find happiness for her mother, Mindy studies Chinese charms and sorcery. Mindy’s spells don’t seem to help her mother, but her painstaking efforts seem to have an effect on the desires and difficulties of several other community members. Shum sprinkles liberal amounts of humor into the mix as the storylines play out while weaving back and forth between the characters. The moving denouement does come across a little forced, but Oh is such a vibrant presences, and little Mindy so endearing that the flaws in the script are easily overlooked.” 3 cats