COMEDIES

COLLECTED BY GERIANN PIOQUINTO & BRAD DER

Always Be My Maybe

Rom-Com | PG-13 | Nahnatchka Khan | Netflix

"Childhood friends Sasha and Marcus have a falling out and don't speak for 15 years. But when Sasha, now a celebrity chef in Los Angeles, returns to her hometown of San Francisco to open a new restaurant, she runs into her old pal - a happily complacent musician still living at home and working for his dad. Though the two are reluctant to reconnect, they soon find the old sparks - and maybe some new ones - are there."

The Big Sick

Comedy-Drama | R | Michael Showalter | Streaming on Prime Video

"Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani), in the middle of becoming a budding stand-up comedian, meets Emily (Zoe Kazan). Meanwhile, a sudden illness sets in forcing Emily to be put into a medically-induced coma. Kumail must navigate being a comedian, dealing with tragic illness, and placating his family's desire to let them fix him up with a spouse, while contemplating and figuring out who he really is and what he truly believes."

Crazy Rich Asians

Rom-Com | PG-13 | Jon M. Chu | Streaming on HBO Max

"Rachel Chu, an American-born Chinese NYU professor, travels with her boyfriend, Nick to his hometown of Singapore for his best friend's wedding. Before long, his secret is out: Nick's family is wealthy, and he's considered the most eligible bachelor in Asia. Every single woman is incredibly jealous of Rachel and wants to bring her down."

Easter Sunday

Comedy | PG-13 | Jay Chandrasekhar

"Actor Joe Valencia and his son Junior attend a family Easter celebration."

The Farewell

Comedy-Drama | PG | Lulu Wang | Streaming on SHOWTIME

"A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time."

The Half Of It

Rom-Com | PG-13 | Alice Wu | Netflix

"A shy, introverted, Chinese-American, straight-A student finds herself helping the school jock woo the girl they both secretly love. In the process, each teaches the other about the nature of love as they find connection in the most unlikely of places."

Lucky Grandma

Comedy-Drama | Unrated | Sasie Sealy | Streaming on SHOWTIME

"In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma (Tsai Chin) is eager to live life as an independent woman, despite the worry of her family. When a local fortune teller (Wai Ching Ho ) predicts a most auspicious day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino and goes all in, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck-suddenly attracting the attention of some local gangsters. Desperate to protect herself, Grandma employs the services of a bodyguard (Corey Ha) from a rival gang and soon finds herself in the middle of a Chinatown gang war."

Parasite

Comedy-Thriller | R | Bong Joon-ho | Streaming on Hulu

"The Kims are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they literally smell of poverty. They perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Despite not having a university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye.

The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. The Kims as a collective start a plan to replace existing servants in the Parks' employ in orchestrating reasons for them to be fired. The question then becomes how far the Kims can take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks."

Saving Face

Rom-Com | R | Alice Wu | Streaming on Prime Video

"In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss at the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing. Once her grandfather has promised that her mother would only return to Flushing remarried or proving that it was an immaculate conception, Wil tries to find a Chinese bachelor to marry Ma."

Seoul Searching

Comedy-Drama | TV-MA | Benson Lee

"During the 1980s, the Korean government created a special summer camp for "gyopo" or foreign born teenagers where they could spend their summer in Seoul to learn about their motherland. While the intentions of the program were honorable, the activities of the teens were not. The program was eventually cancelled after a few years because the government simply could not control the youth. Seoul Searching is a teen comedy and coming of age film, based on a true story about one of the summer camps that took place in 1986."

She's Dating the Gangster

Rom-Com | TV-PG | Cathy Garcia-Molina | Streaming on Netflix

"Athena Dizon plays a trick on campus heartthrob and bad boy, gangster, Kenji de los Reyes. Setting up an arrangement to pretend as lovers-to make his ex jealous-they found themselves falling to each other yet falling apart."

The Tiger Hunter

Comedy | Unrated | Lena Khan

"A young Indian man relocates to 1970s Chicago to become an engineer, but when his job falls through, resorts to an elaborate charade with misfit friends in order to woo his childhood sweetheart."

To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Rom-Com | TV-14 | Susan Johnson | Netflix

"Lara Jean Covey writes letters to all of her past loves, the letters are meant for her eyes only. Until one day when all the love letters are sent out to her previous loves. Her life is soon thrown into chaos when her foregoing loves confront her one by one."

Wedding Season

Rom-Com | TV-PG | Tom Dey | Netflix

"Pressured by their parents to find spouses, Asha and Ravi pretend to date during a summer of weddings, only to find themselves falling for each other."

3 Idiots

Dramedy | PG-13 | Rajkumar Hirani | Streaming on Netflix

"Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them "idiots"."