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Dim Sum Funeral (2009)

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Reviews Counted:5

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Rotten:5

Average Rating:3.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Estranged Chinese siblings return to their childhood home to pay tribute to their dead mother. They all had problems with her, but they honor her last wish: to be buried in a traditional Chinese... [More]

Starring: Bai Ling, Steph song, Talia Shire, Julia Nickson

Director: Anna Chi

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1 - 5 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)

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There were plenty of opportunities for originality here, but other than toying with a layer of Asian exoticism, writer Donald Martin doesn't stray far from convention

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07/30/09

Don Willmott

Filmcritic.com

Too simplistic to be believable.

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06/15/09

Fr. Chris Carpenter

Movie Dearest

Overly melodramatic and soap operatic. Very familiar episodic look at a comtemporary Chinese/American family and the gaps that divide them.

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06/12/09

Pete Hammond

Boxoffice Magazine

So jaw-droppingly misguided in its blend of mawkish sentiment and comic relief that it almost elicits one's grudging admiration.

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06/11/09

Justin Chang

Variety

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Director Anna Chi�s Chinese-American family drama, from a screenplay by Donald Martin, is ambitious in scope and banal in execution.

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06/11/09

Ernest Hardy

L.A. Weekly

1 - 5 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)

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