| A Great Wall | |||||||||||||
| Director: | Peter Wang | ||||||||||||
| Starring: | Peter Wang Sharon Iwai Kelvin Han Yee Li Qinqin Wang Xiao Hu Xiaoguang Shen Guanguan | ||||||||||||
| Music: | Ge Ganru David Liang | ||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Robert Primes Peter Stein | ||||||||||||
| Editing: | Grahame Weinbren | ||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Orion Classics | ||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 97 min | ||||||||||||
| Country: | United States | ||||||||||||
| Language: | English Mandarin | ||||||||||||
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A Great Wall is a 1986 comedy-drama film written, directed and starring Peter Wang. It was the first American feature film shot in the People's Republic of China and was Kelvin Han Yee's first film.
When a Silicon Valley Chinese American executive goes back to his homeland of China for the first time in 30 years, he and his family encounter many culture clashes between the lives that they lead in the United States and the lives of their relatives in China. The finale of the movie includes an exciting table tennis match involving the Chinese-American son played by Kelvin Han Yee.
The film was met with critical acclaim. The film has a score of 60% from Rotten Tomatoes based on ten reviews.[1]
Roger Ebert from the Chicago-Sun Times awarded the film three out of four, and wrote, "A Great Wall is a human comedy about a Chinese-American family that goes to visit relatives in Peking, and within that simple premise are so many inspirations that the movie is interesting even when it's just looking at things", and went on to say "The chief pleasure of "A Great Wall" is its observation of the different attitudes toward the daily process of living in China and the United States."[2]