Saving Face

Tonight I attended another free screening at the E Street Cinema that I won tickets to. The film was Saving Face, about a Chinese-American lesbian doctor and her (un)traditional family. Her mother is kicked out of her home with her parents, and then lives with her daughter the doctor, after they learn she is pregnant at 48 (while a widow without a husband). Very funny, if still quite formulaic in the end (that's what makes it a romantic comedy, though, isn't it?). I also love it when the characters are sharp and understand what's going rather than having so many "duh" moments. This is one to see.

P.S. Joan Chen, who plays the pregnant mother, directed Autumn in New York. What was she thinking?!