
The Joy Luck Club
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- Year:
- 1993
- 139 min
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(2.69 / 42 votes)The old woman remembered
a swan she had bought...
many years ago in Shanghai
for a foolish sum.
"This bird," boasted
the market vendor...
"was once a duck that
stretched its neck...
in hopes
of becoming a goose.
And now look.
It is too beautiful to eat."
Then the woman and the swan
sailed across an ocean...
many thousands of li wide...
stretching their necks
toward America.
On her journey
she cooed to the swan...
"In America I will have
a daughter just like me.
But over there, nobody will say
her worth is measured...
by the loudness
of her husband's belch.
Over there, nobody will
look down on her...
because I will make her speak
only perfect American English.
And over there, she will always be
too full to swallow any sorrow.
She will know my meaning
because I will give her this swan...
than what was hoped for."
But when she arrived
in the new country...
the immigration officials
pulled the swan away from her...
leaving the woman
fluttering her arms...
and with only one swan
feather for a memory.
For a long time now,
the woman had wanted...
to give her daughter
the single swan feather...
and tell her, "This feather
may look worthless...
but it comes from afar
and carries with it...
all my good intentions."
- Hi!
- Oh, Jennifer! Oh, hi!
- Hi, June.
- Hi.
Yeah, I want-- That's it.
How are you, June?
...the official line
of scrimmage. No gain.
- Come on, do or die.
Right here. Come on, do or die!
- Come on!
- All right, all right,
they're lining up for a pass!
- A pass, man!
- It's a pass! Here we go, baby!
- Fourth and seven.
- Here we go. Come on!
- Oakland.
All right, all right,
here we go! Here we go!
- Yes. Yes. Yes!
- Yeah!
Yes! I told you, man!
I told you!
Yeah, you owe me five bucks!
Every morning,
"Wave, Wave, Waverly-a!"
I do not sound like--
She's saying I sound like my--
I do not sound like my mother.
How could I be like my mother?
- And you started--
- She said that too.
- She is right, you know.
This kind of vegetable...
- What?
- Don't put Chinese cabbage in the salad.
- has to be, has to be boiled.
- I always use Chinese cabbage--
- It's bitter.
- Mmm, Dad, that smells good.
- Thanks.
- No! No!
- It will fall apart!
- Someone help me now.
- I can't believe they're still arguing.
- Come on, picture time!
All right, picture time now.
- Aunt Rose! Rose!
- Rose! Rose! Rose!
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Picture, picture.
- We're ready.
- Come on.
- Oh! June.
-June. Come here.
- Come on, June!
- Get over here!
- Get over here!
-Get over here!
-Come on!
-Oh, no, that's all right, Lena.
- Come on!
- It's all right.
- No, really.
- Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.
- Go on!
- Come on, right now.
-June, come closer, darling. Come closer.
- All right, enough.
- Enough. Time to take the picture now.
- Come on, girls.
All right, let me check your hair.
Okay, it looks nice.
- Now smile naturally, Ma.
- I always do, Waverly.
- You look beautiful.
- No, you don't. Do a nice, friendly one.
- You look younger all the time.
How is that?
- I give you my good skin.
- Really? You promise?
- You will look like me when you are older.
- Yes.
- Come close.
- I'm close, Mom.
- But don't crush my hair.
- Say cheese.
- I won't.
- Cheese!
- Cheese!
- Cheese!
Ying Ying, take this.
-My mother died four months ago.
-...$9.99.
I realized for the first time,
they wanted me to take my mother's place.
So I sat down on the East,
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