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The Joy Luck Club
Directed by
Wayne Wang
R
1993
2h 19m
Drama
,
Family
7.7
86%
89%
7.1
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Four Chinese women along with their mothers delve into their past and try to find answers. Slowly, this search helps them to understand the complex relationship they share with each other.
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Cast of The Joy Luck Club
Tsai Chin
Lindo Jong
Kieu Chinh
Suyuan Wong
Lisa Lu
An-Mei Hsu
France Nuyen
Ying-Ying St. Clair
Rosalind Chao
Rose Hsu Jordan
Lauren Tom
Lena St. Clair
Tamlyn Tomita
Waverly Jong
Ming-Na Wen
June Woo
Michael Paul Chan
Harold
Andrew McCarthy
Ted Jordan
Christopher Rich
Rich
Russell Wong
Lin Xiao
Vivian Wu
An Mei's Mother
Chao-Li Chi
Canning Woo
Victor Wong
Old Chong
Philip Moon
Ken
Diane Baker
Mrs. Jordan
Lucille Soong
Popo
Irene Ng
Lindo - Age 15
Yu Feihong
Ying Ying - Age 16-25
The Joy Luck Club Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Mary F. Chen
Both generations are fearful of revealing their true identities, yet hopeful of discovery. This is the greatest truth of The Joy Luck Club, both the film and the novel.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
This heartrending and transcendent adaptation of Amy Tan's bestseller about a quartet of Chinese American daughters and their immigrant mothers is the ultimate movie about almost everyone's first love: Mom.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Melodramatic? Manipulative? Sure, at times, but great storytellers can get away with anything, and the trio behind this film are in that class.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
While it's a great tear-jerker, it falls short of being a great movie.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
One warning: the typhoon of emotions makes this an eight-handkerchief movie. Bring four for the mothers, four for the daughters when they realize what brave resolve is hidden in an old woman's stern love.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Piece by piece, scene by scene, the story of The Joy Luck Club is set before us onscreen.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
At virtually every turn, the potential arises for the story to drown in syrupy sentimentality. But it never happens.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
The film's biggest strength is its Asian actresses, virtual unknowns in Hollywood's Caucasian pantheon, gracing the screen with performances of power and depth.
Detroit Free Press
Judy Gerstel
It's all too indulgent and gooey, as if relentlessly driving an audience to tears were some higher calling.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
The Joy Luck Club is an intricate, sophisticated study of generational conflict.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Director Wayne Wang maintains a surprisingly hard emotional edge, not getting all fuzzy at the end. The film undoubtedly will speak to mothers and daughters of any nationality.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
At once fascinating for its detailed lore about Chinese customs and legacies and very moving in its realization, the film builds into a highly emotional epic about what it means to be both Chinese and American.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
If The Joy Luck Club doesn't make you cry, nothing will.
Associated Press
Patricia Bibby
Every once in a while a movie comes along that is so stirring and so moving that it stays with you long after it's over. Like a wonderful memory, it washes over your psyche for days and bathes it in some indescribable richness.
Chicago Tribune
Johanna Steinmetz
[Director Wayne Wang ] shows an unexpected predilection here for soap operatic style.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The film contributes a strong and exceedingly rare view of a different cultural experience to the American screen, and in a way that will reach a wide public.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Michael H. Price
Wayne Wang the director and co-screenwriter (with Ronald Bass and novelist Tan) juggles these delicate components with a confidence and grace that make the complexity and the 138-minute running time a breeze.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
If ever there was a women's picture, The Joy Luck Club is it -- but I can't believe it won't strike a chord with anyone who has a mother.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
With this huge, abundantly female cast, director Wayne Wang weaves an intricate tapestry of matriarchal strength and sacrifice.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
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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