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Coming Home Again

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In San Francisco, a Korean-American man takes care of his dying mother and reflects upon their life, while she teaches him her traditional recipes.
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Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times As is so often the case, cultural specificity begets a very recognizable universality in this depiction of parents and children, love, death and grief. Oct 26, 2020 Full Review Ryan Lattanzio indieWire Chung's understated performance is a fitting center for a movie almost always operating at whisper-level. Rated: B+ Oct 24, 2020 Full Review Carlos Aguilar RogerEbert.com Coming Home Again doesn't sanctify the image of the mother, but instead aims to truly capture the full-bodied personhood of the woman Lee put on the page. Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 23, 2020 Full Review Carolyn Hinds But Why Tho? A Geek Community Throughout the film both Chung and Chon have been captivating as two people doing their best to put on a brave face to encourage each other. Rated: 7.5/10 Jul 29, 2021 Full Review Alex Heeney Seventh Row Wayne Wang's Coming Home Again is a heartfelt story of a first generation Korean-American grieving as he takes care of his mother as she dies of cancer. Nov 21, 2020 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Neither self-aggrandizing or sugar coating in its presentation of overwhelming grief, Coming Home Again is a painstaking reminder of Wang's supreme talents. Rated: 3.5/5 Oct 27, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Delicate and moving. Beautiful work by director Wayne Wang! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review brent m I kept waiting for something to grab onto that would bring out the empathy in me in this tale of caregiving in the face of impending loss. Yet usually-reliable director Wayne Wang never really delivers on this point. Instead the filmmaker gives us a sincere but ultimately thin, rote premise whose narrative is stretched to the limit, padded with interminably pregnant pauses, artfully photographed sequences (mostly of cooking) shot in stark silence and ample inconsequential dialogue that could easily have been cut. While the performances are generally impressive, much of what the ensemble has been asked to do comes up lacking in terms of evoking viewer engagement and bringing meaning to what's going on in the hearts and minds of the characters. This offering feels like it could have given audiences so much more but, regrettably, fails to do so. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In San Francisco, a Korean-American man takes care of his dying mother and reflects upon their life, while she teaches him her traditional recipes.
Director
Wayne Wang
Producer
Donald Young, Naja Pham Lockwood
Screenwriter
Wayne Wang, Lee Chang-rae
Distributor
Strand Releasing
Production Co
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 23, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 24, 2021
Runtime
1h 26m
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