Saving Face (2004 film)

Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Alice Wu. The film focuses on Wilhelmina, a young ChineseAmerican surgeon her unwed, pregnant mother and her dancer girlfriend.

Saving Face follows Wilhelmina Wil, a young Chinese American surgeon living in New York. The main plot revolves around her mother spontaneously coming to live with her for being pregnant out of wedlock and thus kicked out of her fathers house while overcoming the difficulties of being closet while dating her lover, Vivian. Wil struggles with allocating time between her mother Gao who is shunned by the rest of the Chinese American community of Flushing for being pregnant and unwed and thus has come to live with Wil.Forced by her mother to come to the typical gathering at Planet China amongst family friends, it is apparent that Wil is closeted to her mother and the rest of the older adults. Although her mother has plans to set her up with a son of a friend, Wil is instantly drawn to Vivian, the daughter of one of the Chinese mothers who recently got a divorce. They accidentally run into each other at the hospital where Wil works, only to discover that Vivians father is actually Wils boss. ........

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