The read
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 70% of the 6,766 2020s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. While falling in love, they discover the possibility of a better life together than the ones they believed they were destined to live alone.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes97%
Metacritic80/100
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
31 audience votes
Key crew
- Bing LiuDirector
- Emile MosseriOriginal Music Composer
- Martyna MajokScreenplay
Cast
- Sebiye BehtiyarAishe
- Fred HechingerSkinner
- Landyn LuMunro
- Ella Rouwen ChenChen
- B. Todd JohnstonJim
- Maxwell AlmonoLuis
- Justin CottaCop (Times Square)
- Alicher AdillAziz
- Dralla AierkenArzu
- Erden UyghurYoung Aishe
- Esther ChenMin
- Celine CheungYi
Stills
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Themes
new york citybased on novel or bookundocumented immigrantjuvenile detention center