Pushing Hands

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Audience Score
72
Pushing Hands
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Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.

Father Knows Best Collection

Lee's early successes included Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western; the three films are informally known as the "Father Knows Best" trilogy.

Movie Details

Movie Budget:$400,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$152,322 (Worldwide)
Original Language:Chinese
Executive Producers:James Schamus, Ted Hope, Li-Kong Hsu, Emily Yi-Ming Liu, Ang Lee
Production Companies:Ang Lee Productions, Central Motion Picture Corporation