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Seventeen Years to Earth (1998)

Seventeen Years to Earth (1998)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1998, October 2
Directors: Perry Lin
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Gina Chai, Stella Ma, Jim Chu, Jo Shui

Overview:

For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister doesn't want to spend time with her, Kathy invents and records a happy encounter) and rejections (she's teased for being Asian, but she writes about what fun she had with friends). Her hopes to be a writer compound the irony of her journal's disconnection. In college and after graduation, one of her closest friends is Kirby, who is also Asian. She denies any romantic attraction, and when they do become lovers, it's her diary that brings a crisis to their relationship and to her identify. Kathy falls back to earth.

Keywords:

coming of age melancholy introspective asian american lyrical