Falling For Grace Movie Reviews
When Grace Tang (actress-writer-director Fay Ann Lee) attends a high-society party in New York City, everyone mistakes her for a famous Hong Kong heiress. In reality, Grace hails from Chinatown. Will this ruin her budding romance with one of New York’s most eligible bachelors (Gale Harold, QUEER AS FOLK)? Comedians Margaret Cho and Lewis Black also star in this romantic comedy.Rating: No Rating
Director: Fay Ann Lee
Cast: Gale Harold, Fay Ann Lee
Release Date: July 20, 2007 (Limited)
Running Time: 98
Distributor: Slowhand Cinema Releasing
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Lucas Akoskin, Mevlut Akkaya, Tim Bauman, Brian Blessinger, Peter Bogdanovich
Plot Summary
Grace is a Chinese American who longs to be a part of New York’s high society. At a socialite event, she is mistaken for a Hong Kong heiress and meets her Prince Charming. Nothing is as it seems absorbing drama. What will happen to this Cinderella when the clock strikes midnight?
Sypnosis
Grace Tang is an ambitious Wall Street banker determined to work her way up the ladder of life and out of working-class Chinatown. Mistaken at an opera soiree as the heiress of a famous Hong Kong fashion dynasty, Grace is suddenly swept into the inner circle of Manhattan’s elite and ushered into the arms of New York’s most eligible bachelor. What follows is a whirlwind of romance and white lies, as Grace carefully negotiates her personal ties to Chinatown and the politics of Wall Street and high society.
Reviews
If, in the November gloom, you’re hankering for a romantic-comedy-drama–particularly one set in Manhattan, the city seemingly built to showcase the genre–director-cowriter Fay Ann Lee has fashioned a sweet, if simple, Cinderella story in Falling for Grace. This time, Cinderella is a Chinese-American Wall Street investment banker who has grown up in New York’s Chinatown with parents who don’t speak English. Prince Charming is a white-boy lawyer and only son in an upper-crusty Upper East Side family. Instead of that lost slipper, there’s a mix-up involving a dress from a Fifth Avenue boutique.
A very sweet and original romantic comedy, “Falling for Grace” is the next “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (sans all the cheesiness.) Grace Tang (Fay Ann Lee) is a Chinese American who longs to be a part of New York’s high society. As a young girl she is teased for being nerdy and out of place. Luckily enough, she finds herself at a socialite event where she is mistaken for a Hong Kong heiress also named Grace Tang in front of a bunch of women that I would only describe as the adult plastics from “Mean Girls.” As she is mistaken for this woman, she meets her Prince Charming (Gale Harold)- only problem is that he is marrying one of the plastic girls. Will Grace manage to win him over? Hopefully “Falling for Grace” finds a distributor as I found it to be a purely wonderful film. It’s charming, sweet and has numerous laugh out loud moments.
