Mary Chen Movies
- 1999
Tom Huang makes his directorial debut with this comedy-drama about a group project at an unnamed L.A university. Judy (Margaret Scarborough) is a blonde airhead; Rick (Kurt Kohler) has the social graces of a bovine; San (Huang) is an ace student struggling with his Chinese-American identity; and Tonisha (N.D. Brown) desperately tries to balance the demands of school while supporting her impoverished mother and little brother. As the film progresses, Tonisha feels overwhelmed by her responsibilities; Judy parties too much; Rick still has no social skills; and San finds himself torn between comely white chick Dana (Wendy Speake) and Chinese-American-and-damned-proud-of-it Grace (Mary Chen). Yet in spite of their respective troubles, this mismatched group bands together to overcome unsympathetic professors and demanding parents in order to make the best gosh-darned project of the whole semester. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
This independent debut film for writer-director Chris Chan Lee follows the adventures of a group of eight L.A. teenagers on the last night before their high school graduation. Sin Lee (Michael Chung) can't join in the fun his friends have planned, because his parents are making him mind their grocery store. The store is robbed at gunpoint, and the thieves make off with $1,500. Sin tells his friends that his father won't let him go to college unless he gets the money back. The young men and women decide to find the thieves and the money, and spend a wild and dangerous night trying to recover the loot. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
