Word: jade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beginning with a shot of the Li family dinner table from the viewpoint of the spinning lazy-susan, the movie explores how Jade (Sandra Oh), the family's twenty-two-year-old daughter, balances her Chinese parents' expectations with her Canadian upbringing and aspirations to be an actress...
From the beginning, we are impressed with Jade's engaging character. Her irreverent witticisms are refreshingly down-to-earth, and her surprisingly low-voiced thespian soliloquies are dramatic, if not wholly sensical. Also, Jade's repeated efforts to appease her aggravatingly stubborn disciplinarian father garner audience sympathy...
...model that suits him--reportedly on the cover of In Fashion. She's Angie Everhart. After dating for two months, they've announced their intention to wed--she for the first time, he for the third. Everhart, in that delicate catwalk-to-movie transitional phase, has just wrapped Jade, a drama starring David Caruso, and signed up for her first Stallone-like action role...
...Mongols, we had assumed tribes in this region spent most of their time on horseback. But archaeology is beginning to show that from 6000 B.C. on, these were agrarian societies." The northern peoples had much in common with the Chinese to the south:stone altars and pieces of jade carved into dragons suggest there was a common origin for the two groups' important beliefs, rituals and religious concepts. In addition, recent excavations have uncovered the remains of more than 100 walled cities dating to the 3rd millennium B.C., none of which were mentioned in ancient Chinese records...
Opportunity for escape came in the form of a strange, dreamlike journey in which Jade helped a wounded prison guard reach a hospital (where North Vietnamese doctors shrugged and amputated a nearly healed leg). Jade managed to slip away into the chaos of a broken society. A boyhood friend sheltered him, and they scrabbled to find money for an escape by boat to Thailand. Twice they were turned back. Before the third attempt was successful, pirates boarded their boat, stole everything and raped the women. Jade and one of his brothers found their way to a refugee camp and spent...