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Double Happiness is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Mina Shum released in USA on 28 july 1995 with Sandra Oh
Double Happiness (1994)
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Add to a movie listDouble Happiness is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum, co-produced by First Generations Films and the National Film Board of Canada.
The film stars Sandra Oh as Jade Li, an artist struggling to assert her independence from the expectations of her Chinese Canadian family. Callum Keith Rennie also stars as Mark, Jade's love interest.
Oh won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for this film.
Synopsis
Jade Li (Sandra Oh) is a feisty, 22-year-old Chinese-Canadian aspiring actress who lives at home with her traditional Chinese family: her strict father (Stephen Chang), her dutiful mother (Alannah Ong), and her sweet younger sister, Pearl (Frances You). Their older brother, Winston, has been disowned—a fate Jade is not eager to share, both for her own sake and to spare her family pain.Actors
Sandra Oh
(Jade Li)
Callum Keith Rennie
(Mark)
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