Pushing Hands

Movie
Audience Score
72
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NR 1 hr 45 minDrama, ComedyFather Knows Best Collection PosterPart of Father Knows Best Collection
Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.
StarringLung SihungWang BozhaoDeb Snyder
DirectorAng Lee
WritersJames SchamusAng Lee

Movie Details

Movie Budget:$400,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$152,322 (Worldwide)
Original Language:Chinese
Executive Producers:Ted Hope, Hsu Li-Kong, Ang Lee, Emily Yi-Ming Liu, James Schamus
Production Companies:Ang Lee Productions, Central Motion Picture Corporation
Movie Tags:
martial artsculture clashfish out of waterchinatownnew york stategeneration gapintercultural relationshipamerican culturefamily hometai chi

Father Knows Best Collection

Lee's early successes included Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western; the three films are informally known as the "Father Knows Best" trilogy.