Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After 22 years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface, and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.
- Date of release
- 1999-04-14
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Chi Muoi Lo
Casting
- Paul Winfield — Harold Williams
- Mary Alice — Dolores Williams
- Sanaa Lathan — Nina
- Chi Muoi Lo — Dwayne Williams / Sap
- Lauren Tom — Mai
- Kieu Chinh — Thanh
- Tyler Christopher — Michael
- Tzi Ma — Vinh
- George Wallace — James
- William Thomas — Douglas
Interesting facts
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Chi Muoi Lo in his directorial debut about a Vietnamese brother and sister raised by an African American couple. The film stars Chi Muoi Lo, Paul Winfield, Sanaa Lathan, and Mary Alice. Music Supervision was performed by Tony Scott Zubia.
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