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With: Parry Shen, Jason J. Tobin, Shirley Anderson, Nanette Matoba, Kenji Matoba, Sung Kang, Roger Fan
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Written by: Ernesto Foronda, Justin Lin, Fabian Marquez
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Directed by: Justin Lin
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MPAA Rating: R for violence, drug use, language and sexuality
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Running Time: 99
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Date: 01/12/2002
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Better Luck Tomorrow (2003)
New School
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Better Luck Tomorrow starts with a bang, kicking off with the screenwriter's trick of showing us a chunk from the middle. Two Asian-American high-schoolers relax in the L.A. sun when someone's pager starts beeping. "It's not me," says one, then the other. They begin digging in the nearby dirt and find that the pager belongs, in fact, to a buried corpse. Directed by Justin Lin, the film plays with the enormous and ever-mounting pressure and competition among high-school students. Smart kids Ben (Parry Shen) and Virgil (Jason J. Tobin) fall into a cheating ring, then find themselves elevated to drug dealers, party guys, and all around playas. Shen and Tobin are particularly good as the straight-laced, handsome Ben and the half-mad Virgil. Lin deals with the harsh material as unblinking black comedy, and some are bound to be offended.
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