The two-story house in the suburbs isn't big enough for both the high-strung beginning novelist and her retired father-in-law, a tai-chi master who has learned not one word of English in his month in the States. A very quiet culture clash, outside of a kitchen-wrecking rampage and a couple of incredible (i.e., unbelievable, unswallowable) demonstrations of martial arts. Of interest, if not a lot, as the filmmaking debut of Ang Lee and the start of his "Father Knows Best" trilogy, rounded out by The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman. With Sihung Lung, Bo Z. Wang, Deb Snyder. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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