![]() ![]() HENRY GOLDING: (As Nick Young) Singapore for Spring Break, Colin's wedding. Nick is serious enough about Rachel that he invites her to fly home with him to Singapore so that she can meet his family for the first time. Our guide to all this over-the-top luxury is an outsider named Rachel Chu, an NYU economics professor played by Constance Wu from the sitcom "Fresh Off The Boat." Rachel is dating a fellow academic named Nick Young, played by a dreamy British-Malaysian newcomer named Henry Golding. Drawing us into the privileged world of Singapore's billionaire Chinese families, the movie is a satire and a soap opera, a "Meet The Parents" comedy and a "Cinderella" romance all wrapped up in the swankiest of lifestyle fantasies. More milestones should be this light on their feet. Happily, it doesn't collapse under that weight. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: "Crazy Rich Asians" is being hailed as a milestone for Asian representation in Hollywood, which means it's being saddled with more cultural and commercial expectations than any movie should have to bear. Film critic Justin Chang has this review. Adapted from Kevin Kwan's 2013 best-seller, the movie stars Constance Wu as a New Yorker who travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's wealthy family. ![]() ![]() The romantic comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" has generated a lot of anticipation as the first major Hollywood studio film in years to focus on contemporary Asian and Asian-American characters. ![]()
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