Boogie

[Opens March 5 in theaters.] An engaging, well-acted, entertaining, coming-of-age, star-dotted (Bashar ‘Pop Smoke' Jackson, Eddie Huang, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Dave East, and Alexa Mareka), 97-minute film in which hotheaded, talented, ambitious, teenage, American-Chinese basketball star Alfred ‘Boogie' Chin (Taylor Takahashi), who dreams of playing in the NBA, struggles to manage the expectations of his constantly fighting immigrant Taiwanese parents (Pamelyn Chee and Perry Yung) living in Queens, New York, as they attempt to get him scholarship to a prestigious college, his high school basketball coach (Domenick Lombardozzi), an agent (Mike Moh) working on a lucrative contract deal in China, and his spirited girlfriend (Taylour Paige).
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