Wayne Wang

All Movies of Wayne Wang

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  5.4
  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
  A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
  Director of the film

   2011

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  A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
  Mr. Shi is a retired widower from Beijing. When Yilan, his only daughter who lives in the US, divorces, he decides to visit her in the small town where she works as a librarian. His intention is to stay with her until he helps her...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  5.8
  Last Holiday
  Shy cookware clerk Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah), believing her days are numbered, throws caution to the wind and embarks on a dream vacation to Europe. While staying at a grand hotel, she and her uninhibited attitude have a profou...
  Director of the film

   2006

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  5.8
  Because of Winn-Dixie
  Based on the perennial best seller, a lonely young girl adopts an orphaned dog, Winn-Dixie (so named for the supermarket where she found him), who helps her makes friends in the small Florida town. The bond between the girl and he...
  Director of the film

   2005

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  5.4
  Maid in Manhattan
  Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son (Tyler Posey). One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher ...
  Director of the film

   2002

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  5.6
  The Center of the World
  A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with i...
  Director of the film

   2001

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  6.2
  Anywhere But Here
  Fed up with her small-town Bay City existence, Adele August leaves her family and second husband and heads for Beverley Hills with her daughter. The teenager resents the move and her mother's always flamboyant behaviour and in tur...
  Director of the film

   1999

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  6.6
  Chinese Box
  New Year's Eve 1996. John (Jeremy Iron) is an English journalist moving among the Chinese business elite and British officials at expensive nightclubs. However, the politics of transition are seen through the prism of his personal...
  Director of the film

   1997

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  7.2
  Smoke
  In 1990, novelist Paul Auster was asked to contribute a Christmas story to the New York Times. The resulting piece, "Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story," forms the basis for his screenplay for SMOKE. Directed by Wayne Wang ...
  Director of the film

   1995

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  6.3
  Blue in the Face
  Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabitin...
  Director of the film

   1995

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  7.0
  The Joy Luck Club
  Director of the film

   1993

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  Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
  A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the...
  Director of the film

   1989

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  Eat a Bowl of Tea
  A study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related...
  Director of the film

   1989

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  4.0
  Slamdance
  An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.
  Director of the film

   1987

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  Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
  In San Francisco, an immigrant Chinese widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's 62 now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll...
  Director of the film

   1985

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  Chan Is Missing
  Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Ame...
  Director of the film

   1982