Rosemead. 2025. USA. Directed by Eric Lin. Screenplay by Marilyn Fu. With Lucy Liu, Lawrence Shou, Orion Lee. 97 min.
Based on Frank Shyong’s 2017 LA Times column, Eric Lin’s astonishingly accomplished feature debut tackles issues of mental health, critical illness, and the pressures facing immigrant communities through the loving lens of family. Anchored by a career-redefining performance by Lucy Liu, this intimate, urgent story, about a terminally ill woman who discovers her son’s fixation on mass shootings, transcends language and location to envelope the audience in an earnest embrace.
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