No copyright infringement intended. Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave four p.m. mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the conflict between the generations. The film is set in contemporary San Francisco, focusing on a group of late middle-aged Chinese women. Since its arrival in the United States after the Second World War, the women have gathered weekly to play mah-jongg and to tell stories, entertainmenteach other with stories of their children and grandchildren, giving each other a sense of hope and renewal in the midst of poverty and deprivation. The Joy Luck Club is composed of four women - Suyuan (Kieu Chinh), Lindo (Tsai Chin), Ying Ying (France Nuyen) and Mei (Lisa Lu). But if Suyuan dies, the three surviving members invite Suyuan daughter June (Ming-Na Wen) to take their place. Along with the daughters of other members - Waverly (Tamlyn Tomita), Lena (Lauren Tom), and Rose(Rosalind Chao) - June is a Chinese-American with only a passing interest in her rich cultural heritage. But through vignettes that switch back and forth in time, the daughters begin to appreciate the struggles of their mothers to their families in the optimistic promise of the United States to begin. Credit: www.moviefone.com
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