Double Happiness

Headlining the cast is Sandra Oh ( Grey's Anatomy ), whose performance is simply sensational. Jade Li (Sandra Oh) is a twenty-something aspiring actress who dreams of winning an Academy Award. ... Full Review

Jade Li (Sandra Oh) is charming and funny but not very tolerant when it comes to her parents' old-fashioned demands. What really makes the film click, however, is the effective cast (despite some unevenly performed supporting roles). ... Full Review

Like many of the best comedies, this one is funny....Double Happiness is often as insightful as the most serious motion pictures....This is truly a wonderful motion picture, and an unexpected find.....What Mina Shum has achieved here is impressive for a first-time film maker.....She's the kind of person worth building a movie around, and that's exactly what has happened here..... ... Full Review

Directing debut "Double Happiness' not half bad But "Double Happiness," filled with amateur acting (with the notable exception of Sandra Oh) and inexperienced direction, doesn't add up to much. ... Full Review

The film packs a lot of fun into situations that are both telling and amusing But the art provides no dignity in the eyes of her hard- working father (Stephen Chang) and mother (Alannah Ong). ... Full Review

AM Kyle Buchanan | Double Happiness: When you look at this picture of Philip Seymour Hoffman, what do you see? Wait, what? That's Omar from The Wire ? ... Full Article

August 2, 2005 Number one: Crazy Frog strikes again, with an album forthcoming. Meanwhile, Jimmy Barnes's happiness should double with the news that Double Happiness is Australia's number one album for a second week. ... Full Article

Oakland Ballet seems to be getting right to the pointe these days. With new office and rehearsal space in Oakland and an upcoming first-ever performance at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, the 37-year-old troupe is flying high. ... Full Article

By KEVIN THOMAS TIMES STAFF WRITER April 6, 1996 Friday July 28, 1995 Korean Canadian actress Sandra Oh lights up the screen in "Double Happiness," Mina Shum's lively, astringent, semi-autobiographical comedy about the travails of asserting one's independence within an... ... Full Article

The autobiographical ``Double Happiness'' is an audacious first feature for writer-director Mina Shum of Vancouver, who clearly knows what it's like to have a foot in the free-wheeling Western world while following the old paths of duty and respect her... ... Full Article