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Take Out is a 2004 independent film depicting a day-in-the-life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Written and directed by Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker, the film was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award in the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards .
Jan 18, 2004 · Take Out: Directed by Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou. With Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee, Justin Wan. An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt.
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- Drama
- Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
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Take Out. The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s raw, vérité Take Out, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post-9/11 New York City.
- Ming Ding
Oct 31, 2022 · From this simple setup, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of the everyday, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked lives and labor that keep New York ...
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A Chinese immigrant (Charles Jang) in New York works frantically to raise enough money through delivery tips to pay off his $800 debt to smugglers.
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- Drama
- Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker
Oct 17, 2022 · Take Out, 2004 (Film still) The scrambling pace and unpredictability of Ming Ding’s day makes a New York thriller out of the minutiae of the city’s messy everyday lives. And, via a random act of violence, the filmmakers skewer the notion that hard work alone puts the American Dream within reach.
Jun 15, 2022 · The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in the raw, vérité Take Out, by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to...
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