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...cast and crew of Better Luck Tomorrow have been canvassing colleges in Chicago as well as on both coasts, spreading news about the film with the assistance of intercollegiate organizations...
...result, a lot hinges on the success of Better Luck Tomorrow. After the movie is “platform” released today—it opens in Boston on April 18—it will test-run in a limited number of theaters to gauge the amount of audience response before distributors decide to pull it from theaters or to expand its run. Studios, after all, are only concerned with how much a film makes, and Lin isn’t afraid to acknowledge this reality...
...Better Luck Tomorrow, the suburban ennui is different from the ennui of the slick, impersonal American Beauty, but neither is it Not Another Teen Movie. Ben, Virgil, Daric and Han escape from privileged pre-college boredom through drugs, crime and violence...
Unlike those in The Joy Luck Club, the characters in Better Luck Tomorrow do not dwell on the fact that they are Asian-Americans. They’re just teenagers living the American life, navigating the painfully comic and sometimes tragic terrain of adolescence...
With its specific perspectives, it seems that Better Luck Tomorrow focuses on an extremely narrow microcosm of life. But Lin says he is confident that identifying with the characters—Asian or otherwise—will not be a problem, emphasizing that the complexity of life is a common thread that ties everyone together...