The Joy Luck Club (film)

The Joy Luck Club simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin X F Hu is a 1993 American film about the relationships between ChineseAmerican women and their Chinese mothers, directed by Wayne Wang and starring MingNa Wen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nguyen, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, and Tsai Chin. The film is based on the eponymous 1989 novel by Amy Tan, who cowrote the screenplay with Ronald Bass. The film was produced by Bass, Tan, Wang and Patrick Markey while Oliver Stone served as an executive producer. Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mahjong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women has an adult ChineseAmerican daughter. The film reveals the hidden pasts of the older women and their daughters and how their lives are shaped by the clash of Chinese and American cultures as they strive to understand their family bonds and one another.

The Joy Luck Club was formed by four women in San Francisco Lindo Jong Tsai Chin, YingYing St. Clair France Nuyen, AnMei Hsu Lisa Lu, and Suyuan Woo Kieu Chinh. The members have mainly played mahjong and told each others stories over the years. They emigrated from their native country, China, remarried, and gave birth to children in America. Suyuans daughter June MingNa Wen replaced her when Suyuan died four months before the time the film is set. The mothers have high hopes for their daughters success, but the daughters struggle through anxieties, feelings of inadequacy, and failures. Throughout the film, the mothers and daughters bond by learning to understand each other and by overcoming their conflicts.The film begins with Junes prologue tale. In the prologue, a woman presumably Suyuan bought a swan in China from a market vendor who was selling it as a duck that stretched its neck to become a goose. She kept it as her pet and brought it to the United States. When the immigration officials took it away from her, she plucked out only a swan feather instead while she struggled to grab the swan away. For a long time, the woman had kept the feather, planning to someday give the feather to her daughter. ........

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