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Take Out is a 2004 independent film depicting a day-in-the-life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Written and directed by Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker, the film was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award in the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards .
Jan 18, 2004 · Take Out: Directed by Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou. With Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee, Justin Wan. 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.
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- Drama
- Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
- 2004-01-18
Oct 17, 2022 · Take Out, 2004 (Film still) The scrambling pace and unpredictability of Ming Ding’s day makes a New York thriller out of the minutiae of the city’s messy everyday lives. And, via a random act of violence, the filmmakers skewer the notion that hard work alone puts the American Dream within reach.
- Hannah Lack
Oct 31, 2022 · The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s raw, vérité TAKE OUT, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by ...
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