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Dumplings

2004Movie1 h 31 minNR

Horror
68
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb6.7Letterboxd3.5/5Rotten Tomatoes–70%
68
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb6.7Letterboxd3.5/5Rotten Tomatoes–70%

Summary

Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer, a fading actress, is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Thought-provoking
  • Adults

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  • You need an uplifting mood
  • Graphic violence bothers you

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  • Weighs on you.
  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Leaves you shaken.
  • Feels like real life.
  • Puts you inside a crime.

Not for warmth, uplift or comfort.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

Vanity-Induced MonstrosityRare · in 32 titlesAgeing television star, Mrs Li, becomes obsessed with maintaining her youth and finds she can do so by eating aborted fetuses.Awful Wedded Lifein 891 titlesSubverted with the Director and his wife. They are cheating on each other and the Director gives his wife a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech.All 37 tropes

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