Watching TV with the Red Chinese
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Directed byShimon Dotan
Screenplay by
- Netaya Anbar
- Shimon Dotan
Based onWatching TV with the Red Chinese
by Luke Whisnant
by Luke Whisnant
Produced by
- Shimon Dotan
- Netaya Anbar
- Sameer Butt[1]
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| Directed by | Shimon Dotan |
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| Based on | Watching TV with the Red Chinese by Luke Whisnant |
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| Cinematography | Mike Rossetti |
| Edited by | Netaya Anbar |
| Music by | Nat Osborn |
Production company | Moonstone Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Roam Films[1] |
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Running time | 105 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Shimon Dotan, based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Luke Whisnant. The film follows a trio of Chinese exchange students who arrive in New York City in 1980, eager for what America has to offer. They make friends including a literature teacher named Dexter and his girlfriend Suzanne. As they try to adjust to the New York city atmosphere, they become disillusioned with America, eventually buying a firearm for self-defense.[2]
- James Chen as Tzu
- Keong Sim as Wa
- Leonardo Nam as Chen
- Gillian Jacobs as Suzanne
- Ryan O'Nan as Dexter Mitchell
- Michael Esper as Billy
- Peter Scanavino as Czapinczyk
- Idara Victor as Antigone