Double Happiness (film)

Double Happiness is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum, coproduced by First Generations Films and the National Film Board of Canada.

Jade Li Sandra Oh is a feisty, 22yearold ChineseCanadian aspiring actress who lives at home with her traditional Chinese family her strict father Stephen Chang, her dutiful mother Alannah Ong, and her sweet younger sister, Pearl Frances You. Their older brother, Winston, has been disowneda fate Jade is not eager to share, both for her own sake and to spare her family pain.Her family tries to put on the perfect public persona at all costs so as to maintain their dignity as well as uphold their traditional Chinese values. One primary part of this persona is prosperity. Jades father hopes that true financial prosperity will become reality through penny stocks. Jade, meanwhile, tries to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parents wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires double happiness. Therefore, although she manages to land a few bit parts on camera, Jade spends most of her time working in the shop owned by a family friend, performing the duties of a respectful daughter and suffering through arranged dates with prosperous young Chinese men. An adept cultural chameleon, though, she also leads a double life, hanging out with best friend Lisa Claudette Carracedo. ........

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