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Forget the pious immigrant family drama. Films and shows like “Joy Ride,” “Beef” and “Shortcomings” are finally exploring all dimensions of the experience.
Ashley Park did not tell her mother much about the drugs, the sex or any of the other debauchery in “Joy Ride,” the over-the-top comedy in which she is co-starring.
So perhaps it was understandable when, at South by Southwest, just before the Lionsgate film was set to premiere, Park’s mother approached one of the screenwriters, Teresa Hsiao, with a question: If swear words were removed, would the movie still have to be rated R?
“Teresa was like, ‘Oh, I don’t even know how to explain it,’” Park recalled in an interview.
Moviegoers will be able to decide for themselves when their irreverent movie opens Friday. Compared with “The Joy Luck Club” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” in which the most egregious transgressions involved earning poor grades or simply being middle class, the threesomes and cocaine reveries of “Joy Ride” are eye-popping. Arriving in the months after “Everything Everywhere All at Once” made Oscar history with its best-picture win, “Joy Ride” is one of several film and TV projects to present Asian American characters who are both deeply flawed and fully fleshed out….
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