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Take Out Girl

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83% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 75% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Tera Wong, a desperate 20-year-old Asian girl, drops out of college to help work at her family’s failing restaurant. With her mother suffering from back injuries, and unable to seek medical care at the expense of closing the restaurant, Tera decides to take matters into her own hands and parlays her Chinese food delivery expertise into a profitable drug hustle. Financially trapped in a crime and violence-filled Los Angeles territory referred to as the ‘Low Bottoms’, Tera seeks help from a local drug kingpin, Lalo. With the cash rolling in, Tera intends to move her family restaurant to the suburbs and go clean. But after a series of tragic events, the dream Tera built on a foundation of lies comes crashing down, only to realize that she and Lalo have more in common than she could have ever imagined.
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Amy Nicholson FilmWeek (LAist) 05/21/2021
Glower-y nonsense that tries to pass itself off as a slice of life. Go to Full Review
Claudia Puig FilmWeek (LAist) 05/21/2021
A middling movie with definite potential for the filmmakers and actors. Go to Full Review
Elizabeth Garcia But Why Tho? A Geek Community 01/21/2023
9/10
Take Out Girl is a diverse film that offers solid representation both in front and behind the camera. That diversity translates to a realistic and relatable story. Go to Full Review
Pat Padua Washington City Paper 07/19/2021
Take Out Girl is sometimes too raw and the acting is inconsistent from scene to scene; but Wong is a formidable presence, Yee a steady elder, and Carr a vivid gold-toothed villain. Go to Full Review
Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness 10/30/2020
4/5
Take Out Girl is able to explore notions of greed versus desperation, of the reward from hard work versus the faults of short cuts, and of the soul-shattering damage that the awareness of our choices brings. Go to Full Review
Andrew Stover Film Threat 01/24/2020
8/10
With a loud soundtrack consisting of pop-rap, a fully exploited setting with gangsters on every corner, and a collection of characters destined to erupt, Take Out Girl is constantly intriguing. Go to Full Review
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Cindy L 07/04/2024 👎🏼its ok but still very cheap for a budget film but the cast and production could have been better. It feels like the main character over acted with being hard also the brother, I wasn’t impressed with the acting definitely had a potential to be a better film See more 06/26/2022 Movie was 🔥. The girl besides being an amazing actress was gorgeous. The story was better then I thought it was going to be. It was like a high budget modern hood movie that deserves at least 4 stars. I was shocked how good it turned out. Like another reviewer said I wish it was longer. See more 01/23/2022 the movie is pretty good as entertainment, and probably has similarities to a lot of real life situations, but only in terms of narrative. these people don't act anything like restaurant workers, and the drug dealers don't act like drug dealers. the inaccuracies pile up as the film goes on, but don't necessarily ruin my enjoyment. a few peeves: the protagonist would not have taken money from students 2 seconds after the superintendent walked past and glared at her, she could easily have walked into a corner or something at the very least. absolutely no cashier working at a drug front is going to send a random delivery driver into a drug cookup just because they are bored or annoyed with the people in the back. they would be at best fired and at worst tortured and shot. while in the store, the restaurant employees are spending a lot of time standing around bickering or doing nothing while talking about how they are in a rush instead of being pictured doing any actual work. in a real restaurant people are generally moving all the time unless they are on a break, and they most definitely do not argue in front of customers, at least not in english when they speak other languages fluently. if the director wanted the workers to behave that way, they could just do it in a back room or at least when there are no customers present to preserve realism. the fact that the protagonist is photographing every drug dealer in town is a predictable and totally ridiculous plot device as well. absolutely no one would allow that, they would smash your phone and throw it in a lake. the fact that there was no chekhov's gun follow up even though she did get stopped by police was kind of disappointing. the pacing for the reveal that the kingpin guy was her father was a little weird, especially since he looked far more like the other siblings than the protagonist, and the girl who looks most like him was the one on camera the whole time he was talking. overall i am having a decent time with this movie, but it's a fairy tale and is not fully representative of the type of real life adversity it covers. See more Mia M 11/07/2021 The movie was good , but I wish it was just a longer or maybe through a flash back of the mom at an younger age. I would've love to actúa know if everyone died at the end instead of leaving it up to thought. I felt it left an open ending it could at least shown her taking over the drug game or just having a chain of restaurant. Unless its a sequel the ending was took away the star and 1/2. See more 10/10/2021 This a dope ass movie. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Tera Wong, a desperate 20-year-old Asian girl, drops out of college to help work at her family’s failing restaurant. With her mother suffering from back injuries, and unable to seek medical care at the expense of closing the restaurant, Tera decides to take matters into her own hands and parlays her Chinese food delivery expertise into a profitable drug hustle. Financially trapped in a crime and violence-filled Los Angeles territory referred to as the ‘Low Bottoms’, Tera seeks help from a local drug kingpin, Lalo. With the cash rolling in, Tera intends to move her family restaurant to the suburbs and go clean. But after a series of tragic events, the dream Tera built on a foundation of lies comes crashing down, only to realize that she and Lalo have more in common than she could have ever imagined.
Director
Hisonni Johnson
Producer
Hisonni Johnson, Melissa Del Rosario, J. Spencer, Dijon Talton, Alberto Triana, Hedy Wong
Screenwriter
Hisonni Johnson
Production Co
The Label, Premiere Pre and Post, Sabear Media, Rose Ray Media
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 18, 2021
Runtime
1h 38m
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