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This heart-warming coming out romance from first-time lesbian director Alice Wu was the toast of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
Boyishly gorgeous Michelle Krusiec stars as Wil, a young Manhattan doctor who still regularly attends her extended Chinese family's weekly get togethers. There, she meets Viv (Lynn Chen), a sexy dancer with the ballet, and the two women become lovers.
Wil's schedule makes their romance difficult enough, but she's also in the closet - so it causes a major trauma when her single mother Hwei-Lan (the luminous Joan Chen) shows up on her doorstep looking for a place to live because she's gotten pregnant!
Wil does what any dutiful child with an expectant, unmarried mother on her hands would do: she proceeds to set Hwei-Lan up with every eligible bachelor in town.
Although the two women are close, Wil doesn't tell her mom about Viv, but neither will her mom tell her who is the father of the upcoming child. This difficult situation comes to a head in a surprising way!
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