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WATCHING TV WITH THE RED CHINESES

By Shimon DOTAN

MOONSTONE ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2012

Uproarious and unnerving, Dotan’s film is not just a story about love and innocence corrupted; it is a probing exploration of perception, and the infinite possibilities contained in each decision we make. What is this one world we live in? And what else could have been?

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, CHINESE
- Duration
- 105 mn
- Director(s)
- Shimon DOTAN
- Writer(s)
- Netaya ANBAR, Shimon DOTAN
- Cast
- Ryan O'NAN, Leonard NAM, Gillian JACOBS, James CHEN, Keong SIM, Peter SCANAVINO, Michael ESPER, Constance WU
- Producer(s)
- Netaya ANBAR, Sameer BUTT, Shimon DOTAN
- Synopsis
- When Tzu (James Chen), Wa (Keong Sim) and Chen (Leonardo Nam) come to New York City in the summer of 1980 to study, they find themselves in a strange land far, far away from life in communist China. Consuming a heavy daily diet of American T.V., they are captivated by the cacophonous culture surrounding them. They make friends with their nextdoor neighbor Dexter (Ryan O’Nan), his sometimes girlfriend Suzanne (Gillian Jacobs) and the struggling filmmaker Billy (Michael Esper). They party. One falls dangerously in love. But a brutal mugging and an ex-boyfriend’s crazed jealousy plunge them into a state of cultural confusion and fear. When, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon is murdered, the trio fatefully confronts the social violence that surrounds them …
  
  Uproarious and unnerving, Dotan’s film is not just a story about love and innocence corrupted; it is a probing exploration of perception, and the infinite possibilities contained in each decision we make. What is this one world we live in? And what else could have been?