The Farewell

About The Farewell

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell is a 2019 comedy film directed by Lulu Wang. Awkwafina takes the lead as Billi, Zhao Shuzhen as Nai Nai, Hong Lu as Little Nai Nai, and Hong Lin as Doctor Wu.

It runs 100 minutes and was released in July 2019. Written by Lulu Wang. It was produced by Big Beach and Depth of Field.

Members will find relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, grandmother, and east asian lead in it. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 1,594 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.

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