Advantages: Brilliantly acted, wonderfully warm. Sad, poignant, funny, explores all aspects of mother/daughter relationships and female/female friendships Disadvantages: Not for the guys they'll find it anoyingly boring and won't understand it at all!
...female bonding? Then get the girls over, curl up on couches and cushions, and enjoy! This is a wonderful movie exploring relationships between mothers and daughters and a group of female friends. I would say that this is truly a womens movie and maybe one for mothers and grown daughters to watch together. I would think that a lot of males would find it too sensitive for their taste. It is very much a film for the empowerment of women. I think every ...
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Advantages: Great acting, good stories & character development Disadvantages: more for the ladies then the men
...piece of cinema which explores the lives and relationships between mothers and daughters in a Chinese American family through time. The film starts with a story of how the first member of the family came to America to find a new life for herself , one better than the one she left behind. The film then charts the development of her family through the decades, with all the sisters and their stories of how they came to be in America and the experiences ...
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Release Date: 2004-05-10, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
Production Year: 2001 - Drama - Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael Salomon, David Nutter, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Frankel, Tony To - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over