The Farewell (2019)

NAME OF FILM: THE FAREWELL (2019)

DIRECTOR(S): Lulu Wang

STARRING: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Gil Perez-Abraham

GENRE: Comedy Film

SYNOPSIS: Awkwafina, the flamboyant breakout star of Crazy Rich Asians, plays a woman traveling back home to China to assist in an elaborate ruse to keep a truth from her terminally ill grandmother.

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