Shortcomings

Nominee
Grand Jury Prize ~ Dramatic
Sundance Film Festival
'Shortcomings' [is] about growing up a little too late and having to reckon with your own rotten self. Oh, and it’s hilarious.
-- Alissa Wilkinson, Vox

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Shortcomings

Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.
R
Genre
Romantic Comedy, Drama, AAPI Experience
Runtime
92
Language
English
Director
Randall Park
Writer(s)
Adrian Tomine
Cast
Justin H Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki, Debby Ryan, Tavi Gevinson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jacob Batalon, Timothy Simons
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Jessica Kiang, Variety

Perhaps humbly anticipating a slightly less prestigious premiere than in competition at Sundance, Randall Park’s “Shortcomings” opens with an amusingly broad parody of “Crazy Rich Asians” (starring original cast member Ronnie Chieng alongside Stephanie Hsu) playing at a Berkeley-based Asian American ...

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