Today's film celebrating movie moms is The Joy Luck Club, from 1993, a very emotional and moving story about four Chinese immigrant women and their adult Chinese-American daughters. It was based on the great book by Amy Tan (one of my favorites) and tells the story of the present day lives of the daughters and in flashback, the previous lives of their mothers in China before coming to America. It deals with the culture clash between the mothers and daughters as it explores how different the women's lives are from the past generation. The sad thing about this movie is that to this day it's still one of the few mainstream films ever made that focuses on the lives of Asian-Americans, who remain a severely overlooked minority group in Hollywood.
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