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Motherland

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After a long absence abroad, a young Asian American woman, Raffi Tang, is called home when her estranged mother is mysteriously murdered. Raffi becomes increasingly distraught as she struggles with her mother's loss and gets drawn into a web of deception and incompetence.

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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter 09/28/2012
Motherland doesn't fully succeed on any of its levels. But Doris Yeung's subtle and intelligent debut feature contains enough interesting elements to mark the filmmaker as someone to watch. Go to Full Review Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle 08/25/2011
2/4
Yeung tries to mix a whodunit with a story of explosive family dynamics, but the effort succumbs to a weak script and a one-note lead performance. Go to Full Review Mike Hale New York Times 03/18/2011
2.5/5
Plays like an artsy short stretched to 93 minutes. Go to Full Review David Noh Film Journal International 03/18/2011
Besides its requisite thrills, the Asian-American experience has rarely been better captured than in this taut, sensitively drawn murder mystery. Go to Full Review Prairie Miller WBAI Radio 03/14/2011
Francoise Yip is stunning and steel-willed as a take charge, not taking no for an answer, tough-talking sleuth. While subverting any vestiges of the meek China Doll mystique, in this too true for comfort crime thriller. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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02/23/2013 An Asian American crime story; I saw this with a couple of German guys in the top floor "culture space" of a gay bar in Beijing. Definitely a student film, but also undeniably creepy. Imagine if Maxine Hong Kingston wrote John Grisham's "The Firm." Even creepier, the director emerged at the end and told us that the script is autobiographical -- her mother really was murdered! See more Read all reviews
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Doris Yeung

Director

Françoise Yip

Raffi Tang

Byron Mann

Michael Wong

Kenneth Tsang

Stanley Tang

Carl Irwin

Attorney Cooper

Walter Peña

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Synopsis After a long absence abroad, a young Asian American woman, Raffi Tang, is called home when her estranged mother is mysteriously murdered. Raffi becomes increasingly distraught as she struggles with her mother's loss and gets drawn into a web of deception and incompetence.
Director
Doris Yeung
Producer
Taro Goto, Doris Yeung
Screenwriter
Doris Yeung
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 18, 2020
Runtime
1h 31m
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