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The Joy Luck Club

1993 · 139 min

A sweeping, tender mosaic of memory and migration that asks you to sit with its sorrows and its reconciliations.

Tagline
Between every mother and daughter there is a story that must be told.
Overview
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • immigration
  • memory
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Wayne Wang
Written by
Ronald Bass, Amy Tan
Starring
Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, Ming-Na Wen
Music
Rachel Portman
Cinematography
Amir Mokri
Runtime
139 min
Country
United States of America, China
Languages
Cantonese, Mandarin, English, French

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