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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Asian Crush
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Asian Crush
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary After being evicted, hardworking single mom Elaine Cheng tries to maintain a normal life for her children, Raymond and Tina. Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. When Elaine doesn’t return home one night, nobody knows the kids are home alone, and they are left to fend for themselves. As th...

Directed By: Tze Chun

Written By: Tze Chun

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Asian Crush
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Asian Crush
  • 1 h 28 m

Children of Invention

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary After being evicted, hardworking single mom Elaine Cheng tries to maintain a normal life for her children, Raymond and Tina. Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. When Elaine doesn’t return home one night, nobody knows the kids are home alone, and they are left to fend for themselves. As th...

Directed By: Tze Chun

Written By: Tze Chun

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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75
One way to judge a filmmaker is by the way he or she directs children. Take Tze Chun and his impressive first feature, Children of Invention.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
75
This is not “Death of a Salesman’’ or “Save the Tiger’’ (in the case of the latter, thank God). But how refreshing to see a movie about a mother’s struggles that doesn’t culminate in her lying on her back to make ends meet.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
70
Chen and Chiu's genuine, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity add immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures.
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The young director Tze Chun is not a flashy filmmaker, but he understands the vulnerability of immigrant workers in the sleazy sub-rosa economies of a floundering 21st-century America.
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70
Urgent, artful and even austerely poetic.
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Heartfelt but dramatically tepid tale.
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40
Children of Invention seems furiously scribbled in shorthand, undermining what it has to offer in contemporary resonance.
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Production Company Syncopated Films, The Complications, Impact Partners, Sasquatch Films
Release Date Mar 12, 2010
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.childrenofinvention.com/
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Awards

VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
San Diego Asian Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Sarasota Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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