Movie |
Chinese American | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture | 1994
Top Ten Films | 1993
National Film Preservation Board | 2020
Best Casting for Feature Film Drama | 1994 | Risa Bramon
Best Screenplay Adapted | 1995 | Ronald
Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | 1994 | Ronald
Best Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture | 1994
Best Youth Actress CoStarring in a Motion Picture Drama | 1994 | Irene
Budget 11,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 32,861,136 USD
In a 2018 NPR interview, executive producer Janet Yang recalled that director Wayne Wang (who she said usually had "the most lovely personality") lost his temper in a marketing meeting because the studio had presented him with the choices for posters to advertise the movie, and all of the options avoided showing the face of an Asian person. Either the designs were very abstract (for example, a decorative woodcut) or they were photos of the actresses' backs.
In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Towards the end of the movie, June can be seen showing an elderly couple out after the party. She bids farewell to them using their names, Daisy and T.C. Daisy is the American name of Amy Tan's (the source novel's author) mother and T.C. was the name of her mother's partner.
Margaret Cho said this book "changed the way I feel about Asian American history. It made me feel validated."
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.
"Suyuan: That bad crab, only you tried to take it. Everybody else want best quality. You, your thinking different. Waverly took best-quality crab. You took worst, because you have best-quality heart. You have style no one can teach. Must be born this way. I see you."
"An-Mei: I tell you the story because I was raised the Chinese way. I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, and to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way. Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl, and I was born to my mother and I was born a girl, all of us like stairs, one step after another, going up, going down, but always going the same way. No, this cannot be, this not knowing what you're worth, this not begin with you. My mother not know her worth until too late - too late for her, but not for me. Now we will see if not too late for you, hmm?"
