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With his new drama, the director Wayne Wang channels the style and energy of his early, scrappy independent movies.| Outsider Pictures
Director Wayne Wang made his name with films like “The Joy Luck Club,” “Eat a Bowl of Tea” and “Smoke,” intimate works in which he showed his adeptness at detailing the small rituals of life (particularly those having to do with food) and at creating a strong sense of place. “Coming Home Again,” which opens in theaters and virtual cinemas on Friday, does both of those things, and it’s one of the quietest and most restrained movies ever made by a director who’s never been o...| Outsider Pictures
Loosely based on Chang-rae Lee’s 1995 New Yorker essay about returning home to care for his dying mother, “Coming Home Again” centers on a young Korean American aspiring writer named Chang-rae (Justin Chon), who quits his Wall Street job to help care for his ailing mother (Jackie Chung). Revolving around preparations for an elaborate New Year’s Eve dinner including the traditional Korean short rib dish kalbi, the film moves slowly, as Chang-rae cooks for a parent whose stomach cance...| Outsider Pictures
A Korean-American man struggles to accept that his mother is dying as he cooks her favorite recipes for her in “Coming Home Again,” a small-scale Asian-American, immigrant woman’s, and mother-son story directed by Wayne Wang and based on Chang-rae Lee’s same-named New Yorker essay.| Outsider Pictures
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Outsider Pictures has acquired “90 Minutes,” Aeden O’Connor’s feature debut which won the audience award at the Miami Film Festival. The Honduran movie will be represented in international markets and distributed in the U.S. by Outsider Pictures.| Outsider Pictures
Boaz Yakin ‘s romantic dance drama “Aviva” has been sold by Alief Film Company to several big territories.| Outsider Pictures
Outsider Pictures, with Strand Releasing, has acquired all North American rights on “Aviva,” a resolute return to independent filmmaking by the director who lit a fire with his Sundance Grand Prix winning debut, “Fresh,” but is best known by many for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced feel-good race relations drama “Remember the Titans.”| Outsider Pictures
Boaz Yakin Escaped Hollywood and Made His Most Personal Movie in 30 Years| Outsider Pictures