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The Farewell (2019)
NAME OF FILM: THE FAREWELL (2019)
DIRECTOR(S): Lulu Wang
STARRING: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Gil Perez-Abraham
GENRE: Comedy Film
SYNOPSIS: Awkwafina, the flamboyant breakout star of Crazy Rich Asians, plays a woman traveling back home to China to assist in an elaborate ruse to keep a truth from her terminally ill grandmother.
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