Falling for Grace
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Falling for Grace theatrical poster
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| Directed by | Fay Ann Lee |
| Produced by | Fay Ann Lee Michelle Botticelli Susan Batson Carl Rumbaugh Stephanie Wang |
| Written by | Fay Ann Lee Karen Rousso |
| Starring | Fay Ann Lee Gale Harold Margaret Cho Stephanie March Lewis Black Roger Rees Ken Leung Christine Baranski |
| Music by | Andrew Hollander |
| Cinematography |
Luke Geissbuhler Toshiaki Ozawa |
| Edited by | Michelle Botticelli |
| Distributed by | Canal Street Pictures |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English, Cantonese |
Falling for Grace is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Asian-American Fay Ann Lee, who also co-wrote the film with Karen Rousso, and stars alongside Gale Harold. It debuted at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival (as East Broadway). New York magazine called the film one of the two best entries in the "New York, New York" competition that year.
Grace Tang (Fay Ann Lee) is an ambitious Wall Street investment banker raised in New York’s Chinatown. Though she has achieved financial success and stability as a mergers and acquisitions associate, Grace still yearns for social acceptance among the Upper East Side elite. When she is finally invited to her first high-end soiree, a Junior Committee meet-and-greet for a prestigious opera company, she is accidentally mistaken for an heiress from Hong Kong, also named Grace Tang. Her efforts to correct the mistake lose some of their forcefulness when she is subsequently introduced to handsome Andrew James Barrington, Jr. (Gale Harold), who is dating committee-member Kay Douglas (Stephanie March).
From a chance meeting in the street to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, the two begin to see more of each other, and Grace’s personal, professional, and family interests become increasingly entangled and conflicting. Andrew, the son of a prominent attorney (Roger Rees), works in the New York State Attorney General's office in Manhattan, and has been passionately pursuing a case against a network of Chinatown sweatshops — in one of which Grace's mother works. Grace, unable to extricate herself gracefully from what she saw initially as an innocuous white lie, finds herself pretending that her parents are an old couple whom she visits as a volunteer. Meanwhile, Andrew Sr. is helping to shepherd a fashion-company buyout at Grace's bank, with a company that exploits sweatshop works. Grace finds herself secretly caught in the middle
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