''Catfish in Black Bean Sauce'' is a 2000
comedy-drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
film directed by
Chi Muoi Lo in his directorial debut about a
Vietnamese brother and sister raised by an
African American couple. The film stars Chi Muoi Lo,
Paul Winfield,
Sanaa Lathan, and
Mary Alice.
Cast
Reviews
The film has received mixed reviews. A ''
Los Angeles Times'' review noted that as the film's writer/director/actor Chi Muoi Lo "spread himself too thin, resulting in an uneven picture but one that has plenty of substance and emotion".
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...
wrote that the film was "a first draft for a movie that could have been extraordinary". The ''
San Francisco Chronicle'' noted that the film was "a comedy of interracial wariness and misunderstanding marked by a refreshing lack of sappiness".
''Catfish in Black Bean Sauce'' at metacritic
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Awards and nominations
References
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1990s coming-of-age comedy-drama films
1999 films
Films about adoption
American coming-of-age comedy-drama films
Films about Vietnamese Americans
American independent films
Films about race and ethnicity
Comedy-drama films about Asian Americans
African-American comedy-drama films
1999 comedy films
1999 drama films
2000s English-language films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
2000s American films