Watch Double Happiness (1994) Free Online

Release Date: 1994

Cast: Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie

Categories: Movies, Comedy-Drama, Comedy, Indie, Drama Film, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy

Double Happiness (French: Bonheur aigre-doux) is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum, co-produced by First Generations Films and the National Film Board of Canada. The film stars Sandra Oh as Jade Li, an artist struggling to assert her independence from the expectations of her Chinese Canadian family. Callum Keith Rennie also stars as Mark, Jade's love interest. Oh won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for this film. Jade Li (Sandra Oh) is a feisty, 22 year old Chinese-Canadian aspiring actress who lives at home with her traditional Chinese family:... MORE

Double Happiness (French: Bonheur aigre-doux) is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum, co-produced by First Generations Films and the National Film Board of Canada. The film stars Sandra Oh as Jade Li, an artist struggling to assert her independence from the expectations of her Chinese Canadian family. Callum Keith Rennie also stars as Mark, Jade's love interest. Oh won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for this film. Jade Li (Sandra Oh) is a feisty, 22 year old Chinese-Canadian aspiring actress who lives at home with her traditional Chinese family: her strict father (Stephen Chang), her dutiful mother (Alannah Ong), and her sweet younger sister, Pearl (Frances You). Their older brother, Winston, has been disowned -- a fate Jade is not eager to share, both for her own sake and to spare her family pain. Her family tries to put on the perfect public persona at all costs so as to maintain their dignity as well as uphold their traditional Chinese values. One primary part of this persona is prosperity. Jade's father hopes that true financial prosperity will become reality through penny stocks. Jade, meanwhile, tries to achieve that happy medium LESS