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Review

Ang Lee's (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) first English language film is another exploration of family, much like his Eat Drink, Man Woman or later The Ice Storm. But there is one major difference: the family is a gay one!

This wholesome and witty gay screwball comedy follows the dilemma a transplanted Taiwanese, now New York "guppie" faces when his traditional parents pay him a state-side visit. Eager to show them that he is "normal," he enters into an engagement-of-convenience with a woman and relegates his sweet American male lover to the status of innocent best friend/landlord. The delightful characters are the real attraction in this sexual and cultural comedy that might easily have turned into a nasty homophobic mess. Somehow the film affirms the old ways, is gay positive and is certainly entertaining. (English and Mandarin with subtitles - when the family of origin speak)