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Take Out (2008)88 minDramaRating 59/100

The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in this raw, vérité film from Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post-9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark, a restaurant deliveryman races against time to pay back the money he owes over the course of a frantic day.

Cast: Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee, Justin Wan, Jeff Huang, Shih-Yun Tsou, Joe Chien

Director: Tsou Shih-ching, Sean Baker