{"id":41821,"date":"2023-10-03T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reelcanada.ca\/film\/double-happiness\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:54:35","slug":"double-happiness","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/reelcanada.ca\/film\/double-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jade Li (Oh), a vivacious Chinese Canadian, wants to become an actress without upsetting her extremely traditional parents. It\u2019s a balancing act that Jade is finding difficult to achieve. Talking in English, wearing western clothes and going out with non-Asian guys, Jade leads a secret life when she leaves her stuffy-but-warm domestic scene each day. Things come to a head when Mark (Rennie), a white Canadian graduate student, insists on turning their casual fling into something more meaningful. It\u2019s a relationship that Jade\u2019s parents would hate. What should she do?<\/p>\n
Sandra Oh won the Best Actress Genie for her performance. The film also won prizes in Vancouver, Berlin and Turin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jade Li (Oh), a vivacious Chinese Canadian, wants to become an actress without upsetting her extremely traditional parents. It\u2019s a balancing act that Jade is finding difficult to achieve. Talking… <\/p>\n