Double Happiness (film) | Double Happiness
DoubleHappinessisa1994CanadiandramafilmdirectedbyMinaShum,co-producedbytheNationalFilmBoardofCanada.[2]ThefilmstarsSandraOhasJadeLi,anactressstrugglingtoassertherindependencefromtheexpectationsofherChineseCanadianfamily.CallumKeithRenniealsostarsasMark,Jadesloveinterest.Ohreceivedcriticalacclaimforherperformance,[3][4]andwontheGenieAwardforBestPerformancebyanActressinaLeadingRoleforthefilm.JadeLi(SandraOh)isafeisty,22-year-oldChinese-CanadianaspiringactresswholivesathomewithhertraditionalChi...
Double Happiness is a 1994 Canadian drama film directed by Mina Shum, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada.[2] The film stars Sandra Oh as Jade Li, an actress struggling to assert her independence from the expectations of her Chinese Canadian family. Callum Keith Rennie also stars as Mark, Jades love interest.
Oh received critical acclaim for her performance,[3][4] and won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for the film.
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.
Her family tries to put on the perfect public persona at all costs so as to maintain their dignity as well as up...