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A trio of young Bay Area urbanites--Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi, and Alice Kim--as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships, traversing the country in search of the ideal connection. (R, 92 min.)
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Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want. [SPC]
Starring: Ally Maki, Debby Ryan, Jacob Batalon, Justin H. Min, Scott Seiss, Sherry Cola, Sonoya Mizuno, Tavi Gevinson, Theo Iyer, Timothy Simons
Director: Randall Park
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Romance
"A fresh-faced, funny directorial debut from the ever-engaging Park..."
— Jessica Kiang, Variety
"Shortcomings is a charming debut with plenty of fast-cracking jokes."
— Erin Brady, Slashfilm
"Shortcomings will leave the viewer excited to see what Randall Park might do next as a director."
— Mary Siroky, Consequence
"Park proves to be a director with style and wit to spare, staging revelatory sequences that walk the narrow line between comedy and provocation."
— Poulomi Das, The Playlist
"Shortcomings takes some bruising blows at cultural expectations... it’s also about growing up a little too late and having to reckon with your own rotten self. Oh, and it’s hilarious."
— Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
"Shortcomings is a mostly comedic but fitfully insightful examination of a character type familiar to indie cinema: the solipsistic guy who fills the gap left by emotional underdevelopment with intense opinions delivered at bad times."
— Chris Barsanti, Slant Magazine
