When an Asian American girl from the wrong side of the tracks is accepted by a prestigious university, she finds that her academic prowess can be put to lucrative use.
Acting
Annie Q. Riegel's frenetic, desperate charisma carries every scene
Direction
Angie Wang's autobiographical debut—she lived this absurdity
Editing
Nineties club energy that crashes into family melodrama
Director
Angie Wang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Angie Wang actually ran an MDMA ring at Stanford in the 1980s; this is her barely-fictionalized memoir. She cast herself as the mother.
The film bombed in part because distributors didn't know how to market an Asian American female antihero who isn't likable or tragic in expected ways.
US
