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Now Chinatown

10.0 112 mins Drama   Romance   2000
Director(s): Steve Dunning

Release Date: 05 Sat, Feb 2000

Lee's family sent her from China to Los Angeles three years ago to be a waitress in a Chinatown restaurant and send money home to support her ailing grandmother. She lives with her bitter aunt, and endures terrible treatment at work, but feels trapped. Steve, a well-traveled engineer, enters her shabby restaurant by accident one day and is smitten by her. He works to bring her out of her misery and isolation in the short time before he has to leave for a job in China.

Casts of Now Chinatown

Dana Byrne

as Mahjong Player

Chao Li Chi

as Mr. Quong

Jo Chim

as Wei

Steve Dunning

as Steve

Lianne X. Hu

as Lee

Jack Huang

as Melvyn

Ming Lo

as Assistant Deputy Consul

Peggy Lu

as Aunt Jiang

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