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Videos & Photos

  • Official Trailer
  • Trailer 1

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

After learning their beloved matriarch has terminal lung cancer, a family opts not to tell her about the diagnosis, instead scheduling an impromptu wedding-reunion back in China. Headstrong and emotional writer Billi rebels against her parents' directive to stay in New York and joins the family as they awkwardly attempt to rekindle old bonds, throw together a wedding that only grandma is actually looking forward to, and surreptitiously say their goodbyes

Cast

  • Awkwafina
  • Tzi Ma
  • Gil Perez-Abraham
  • Jim Liu
  • Ines Laimins

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Verified Review
#allthefeels
#hilarious
#mustsee
#familyfriendly

I don't cry easily but this definitely made me cry and laugh

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Helen Y
Verified Review
#allthefeels
#hilarious

If you can get into a dialogue driven drama with many genuinely funny moments and a cast and writing that makes the family feel like family, this is a movie you will love.

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Kevin G

Metacritic

80
Sep 21, 2019

Awkwafina and Zhao shine in a deft comedy-drama with a higher US per-screen take than Avengers: Endgame.

Metacritic review by Jamie Graham
Jamie Graham
Total Film
75
Jul 9, 2019

Awkwafina’s true skill as a remarkably sensitive collaborator has only recently been revealed—last year doing broad comedy in Crazy Rich Asians and now here, where every scene requires a deft shading of sadness and guilt.

Oliver Jones
Observer
80
Feb 3, 2019

Delightfully embracing the specificity of Eastern culture, The Farewell reflects on collective considerations versus individualism, not unlike Crazy Rich Asians. It unearths the universality of complex familial love that defies borders and language barriers.

Tomris Laffly
Time Out