Blue Bayou

[Opens Sept. 17 in theaters.] Justin Chon's gripping, moving, factually inspired, gut-wrenching, well-acted, melodramatic, star-dotted (Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jim Gleason, Geraldine Singer, and Sylvia Grace), 119-minute film in which a mechanically inclined, Louisiana tattoo artist (Justin Chon), who was adopted from Korea at three-years-old by a nonsupportive mother (Susan McPhail), struggles to care for his pregnant wife (Alicia Vikander) and stepdaughter (Sydney Kowalske) while befriending a terminally ill Vietnamese refugee (Linh Dan Pham) and dealing with a threat of deportation after his stepdaughter's frustrated, jealous policeman father (Mark O'Brien) and his abusive cop partner (Emory Cohen) create problems for him.
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