Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

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- 66/100 based on 497 votes
  • Released: 1985
  • Runtime: 87 mins
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  • Studio: Project A Partnership
  • Genres: Comedy

In San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's sixty-two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Ta... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart:

Laureen Chew
Kim Chew
Victor Wong
Ida F.O. Chung
Cora Miao
John Nishio

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In San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's sixty-two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine?

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EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyPlayfully celebrating Asian cuisine (every scene displays food), this family melodrama deals with the erosion of traditional values.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Paul AttanasioHow boring and aimless it is! What fake profundity!
User Review - 8/10 by Tom MOne of those movies that's fun to watch even though there's pretty much no plot. Hard to pull off, but Wang does it here.
User Review - 8/10 by Codie EA gentle little American Indie from the mid 80s that bares very few of the visual 'trademarks' of the time, which is a compliment. Director Wayne Wang brings out the clear influence of Yashujiro Ozu, combining the legendary director's pace and Eastern sensibilities with the Western setting. Excellent to see Victor Wong in a lead role as well.
User Review - 6/10 by Michael TThe slow pacing causes tedium in an otherwise pleasant film.
User Review - 6/10 by Greg WThis movie is...fine? I guess? It's not bad. It's an early film by Wayne Wang, one of the few Hollywood directors to consistently take an interest in the lives of ordinary Chinese-American immigrants. (Actually, maybe he's the only one to really do that, and even then he doesn't do it all the time - he's also made indie films like Smoke and studio films like Maid in Manhattan and Last Holiday.) The movie seems like it's a fairly genuine depiction of Chinese-American immigrant life in San Francisco, but it's also not much more than that. The story focuses on Geraldine (Laureen Chew) a woman in her thirties who is still living with her very traditional mother (Kim Chew). Her mother keeps asking her when she's going to get married, but also seems to like having Geraldine around the house. There's also a cheerful older bartender (Victor Wong) who might want to marry the mother. That's sort of it. It's a movie of ordinary events and quiet observations. The cast seems like it consists entirely of nonprofessional actors - looking at the IMDB page, it seems like only one or two of them would ever make a career out of acting, and none of them had significant experience before this movie. It all feels very authentic, and probably is. But I don't feel especially moved or as if I've learned a whole lot from the movie. I'd only really recommend it if you're especially interested in depictions of immigrant life, or in the career of Wayne Wang. Otherwise, you can probably live without seeing it.
User Review - 2/10 by Pop MPerhaps I do not understand Chinese comedy. This movie was so slow and so boring, that my mom and I watched 25 minutes of it and nearly fell asleep. I was terribly disappointed, because Victor Wong and Amy Hill played in it. They are two of my favorite actors. Maybe it would have improved if we stuck it out longer, but it was physically impossible to do so.

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