Better Luck Tomorrow
Better Luck Tomorrow is a 2002 crimedrama film directed by Justin Lin. The movie is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess. Better Luck Tomorrow introduced film audiences to a cast including Parry Shen, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Roger Fan, and John Cho.
Ben Manibag Parry Shen and his friend Virgil Hu Jason Tobin are lying in the sun discussing collegeadmissions, but hearing a cellphone ringing, begin digging in the dirt and soon uncover a human hand.Ben and Virgil are the stereotypical highlyintelligent overachieving AsianAmericans whose only goal is to gain acceptance into highly prestigious Ivy League universities. In fact, Ben learns a new SAT vocabularyword every night through rotememorization and recitation. These words act as the dividers between different chapters of Bens life. In reality, Ben reveals that he in fact uses his perfectionism in order to act out in other ways, such as toiletpapering houses with Virgil and other pettycrimes. Part of these activities include the purchase and return of computerequipment with Virgil, and Virgils cousin Han SeoulOh Sung Kang to earn easy money. ........
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