
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.... (Full plot summary below)
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Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
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| The Associated PressPatricia BibbyA highly emotional epic about what it means to be both Chinese and American. |
| Common Sense MediaKelly KesslerPoignant tale of Chinese-American moms, daughters. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaDeserves every tear it wrenches from your eyes. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumA highly emotional epic about what it means to be both Chinese and American. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLike a flowering of talent that has been waiting so long to be celebrated. It is also one of the most touching and moving of the year's films. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyWang has made a dramatically confident move into the mainstream on his own terms with highly congenial material. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversHits hardest when it bypasses sentiment to ponder the inextricable mix of love and pain that comes with the ties that bind. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranIf The Joy Luck Club doesn’t make you cry, nothing will. In an age of contrived and mechanical sentimentality, its deeply felt, straight-from-the-heart emotions and the unadorned way it presents them make quite an impact. No matter how many hankies you bring with you, it won’t be enough. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonNever has political correctness looked so sumptuously handsome as it does here, and in its perfect-pitch instinct for the cultural vibe, this sweeping movie is so immaculately dead-on that it nearly transcends criticism. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperThe stories are often heart-wrenching and often inspirational. If this is a woman's film, it at least is miles ahead of something like Beaches. |