Didi movie storyline. In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
In his striking directorial debut, Sean Wang takes us on a kinetic ride through the ups and downs of adolescence, mining personal experience to share a joyful, funny, and deeply affecting ode to first-generation teenagers navigating the beauty and pain of cultural heritage in a sea of conformity.
Wang confidently steers us through the freewheeling early days of social media, where AIM emoticons and MySpace rankings carry the weight of heartbreak and friendships forged and broken. Both a moving love letter to immigrant parents and a playful examination of our uncertain paths to adulthood, Dìdi (弟弟) reminds us that growing up and growing into better versions of ourselves are often one and the same.
Dìdi (Chinese: 弟弟) is an American coming-of-age comedy drama film, written, directed, and produced by Sean Wang, in his directorial debut. It stars Izaac Wang and Joan Chen. Carlos López Estrada and Chris Columbus serve as producer and executive producer under their AntiGravity Academy and Maiden Voyage Pictures banners, respectively.
Dìdi had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2024, where it won the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic and U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble. It is scheduled to be released on July 26, 2024, by Focus Features.
Didi (2024)
Directed by: Sean Wang
Starring: Izaac Wang, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Joan Chen, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Mahaela Par, Chiron Denk, Sunil Maurillo, Montay Boseman, Georgie August, Alysha Syed, Alaysia Simmons
Screenplay by: Sean Wang
Production Design by: Hanrui Wang
Cinematography by: Sam A. Davis
Film Editing by: Arielle Zakowski
Costume Design by: Brianna Murphy
Art Direction by: Ryan Mendoza, Heather Uroff
Music by: Giosue Greco
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, sexual material, and drug and alcohol use – all involving teens.
Distributed by: Focus Features
Release Date: January 19, 2024 (Sundance), July 26, 2024
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