Take Out

Take Out (2008)

One illegal immigrant, one smuggling debt, one day to pay up.

An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.

Date of release
2008-06-06
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (50)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama
Director
Tsou Shih-ching, Sean Baker

Casting

Interesting facts

Take Out is a 2004 American independent drama film written and directed by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou. Tsou's co-directorial debut feature and Baker's second work, the film follows an undocumented Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City.

Production

Take Out was filmed in and near Upper Manhattan, New York, in the spring of 2003 on a budget of $3,000. The film was shot on digital video due to both the cinema vérité style and a non-existent budget with an ensemble cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors while shooting without a full crew in an actual take-out restaurant during operating hours.

Charles Jang is a Korean-American actor born on Long Island who learned Chinese while studying abroad in Taiwan. Co-director Shih-Ching Tsou, who is from Taiwan, assumed that he was from China when he auditioned.

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