The doors are crimson, a color said to bring good luck, and when they open, multiple melodramas of the Chinese-American Wongs are exposed. Patriarch Ed (The Ladykillers’ Tzi Ma), a suicide manqué longing for happier days, leaves noose and home behind. Preoccupied with their own problems, his family have missed most signs of his depression. Eldest daughter Samantha (Jacqueline Kim) is engaged to a white bore; middle daughter Julie (Elaine Kao) is engaged in a taboo romance (according to her mother, at least) with an actress (producer Mia Riverton). Youngest daughter Katie (Kathy Shao-Lin Lee), however, keeps interrupting her father’s abortive attempts, treating them as nonchalantly as the small bombs she places in a fellow student’s locker as flirtatious overtures. “Tonight the gates of lost souls close,” says matriarch May-Li (Freda Foh Shen) at the film’s end. Harvard grad Georgia Lee’s feature debut may be slight, but you could consider yourself lucky to have crossed its threshold.
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