As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's new boyfriend.
Direction
Phang blends live-action with jarring animated sequences.
Cinematography
Dreamlike haze that makes suburbia feel underwater.
Acting
Sanoe Lake's brittle restraint will haunt you.
Director
Jennifer Phang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phang shot this for roughly $25,000 and won Sundance's Special Jury Prize — then Hollywood promptly forgot she existed.
One of the few 2000s films centering mixed-race Asian American siblings without making their identity the plot.
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