The Joy Luck Club (Blu-ray) R
Between every mother and daughter there is a story that must be told.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 11, 2012
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Touchstone / Disney
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rosalind Chao & Ming-Na Wen | |
Performer: | France Nuyen, Tamlyn Tomita, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, Tsai Chin, Lauren Tom, Chao Li Chi & Victor Wong | |
Directed by | Wayne Wang | |
Edited by | Maysie Hoy | |
Screenwriting by | Amy Tan & Ronald Bass | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Patrick Markey, Amy Tan & Wayne Wang | |
Director of Photography: | Amir Mokri | |
Executive Production by | Oliver Stone & Janet Yang |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's ravishing to look it, a truly gorgeous object. But it is not deep.
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Washington Post
...Often moving... - Recommended
Premiere
...Both sweeping and intimate, a lovely evocation of changing cultures and enduring family ties....The film is virtually stolen by Tsai Chin as the sly, acerbic Auntie Lindo...
New York Times
...Beautifully made and acted and emotionally moving....Visually, [the] film is splendid...
Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
It's fascinating and satisfying the way the diverse threads are knitted together into a single tapestry.
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ReelViews
Rating: 4/4 --
One of the most touching and moving of the year's films.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The masterful storytelling of the eight women in The Joy Luck Club, illuminated by each actress's elegant portrayal, make the film as resonating today as it did when it first hit theaters nearly eighteen years ago.
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Reel Talk Online
Product Description:
After the successful independent features about Chinese-American life DIM SUM and EAT A BOWL OF TEA, director Wayne Wang took on the daunting task of adapting Amy Tan's sprawling, multigenerational best-seller THE JOY LUCK CLUB. After her mother's death, June (Ming-Na Wen) is asked to take her place in a mahjong club. The three other members, like her mother, were all born in China before the 1949 revolution. When June learns that she has two half sisters in China, she plans a trip to meet them. With this catalyst, the women begin to tell stories, not just about but their own mothers and their lives in China, but also about their often strained relationships with their Americanized daughters. The flashbacks to China are dramatic, and the stories are heartbreaking. As the film progresses, June learns about a culture that's supposedly her own but that she can touch only through the commonality of the mother-daughter bond. It is this nexus that makes the movie work. There are multiple points of view, but they are always connected by the universal desire for one generation of women to pass on their hopes for a better life to their daughters. This feeling, without being cloying or overly sentimental, underlines the emotional tales in this moving, well-acted, and beautifully staged drama.