Friday, June 12, 2009
DIM SUM FUNERAL is mildly successful, with pretty good writing and some good acting. The plot concerns the successful but distanced adult siblings of a wealthy Chinese family, whose mother, frequently known as a dragon lady, is a widow in Seattle. The sibs have as little contact with her as they do with one another. They are brought together, spitting and fuming, by a phone call from their mother's longtime housekeeper/caregiver/confidante. They arrive separately in Seattle to be told by the housekeeper that their mother wanted a traditional seven-day Chinese funeral, complete with chanting monks and blazing replicas of a house and a Mercedes. The one complete misfire is Talia Shire as the housekeeper. And there's a cheat-y plot device that's saved only marginally by the movie's good heart and good generational advice. Details are available on imdb.com
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