Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play It is never too late to fall in love for the first time Writer-director Alice Wu&s debut film is a heartwarming & heartbreaking romantic comedy about family tradition & changing times Michelle Krusiec gives an outstanding performance as Wilhelmina a doctor in a Manhattan hospital who returns to Flushing&s Chinatown every Friday night to participate in her extended family&s weekly dance mixer While her mother (Joan Chen) & the other women try to set her up with eligible bachelors Wil falls for Vivian (Lynn Chen) a beautiful young dancer who feels the attraction as well As the two women contemplate a possible relationship Wil&s mother who is nearing fifty reveals she is pregnant but she will not tell anyone who the father is Wil&s grandfather (Jin Wang) disowns his daughter for the shame she is bringing the family
- he feels he has "lost face" in the community -forcing Wil to take in her mother & care for her in a reversal of generational roles & responsibility But just as her mother remains secretive of who the father of her baby is Wil keeps her lesbianism a secret as well Official Selection at the Sundance & Toronto film festivals