Pushing Hands

Mr. Chu (Lung Sihung) is a widowed tai chi teacher from Beijing who has crossed the world to live with his son Alex (Wang Bozhao) and his American wife Martha (Deb Snyder). He speaks no English, and she speaks no Chinese, so every conversation in the house has to go through Alex. Ang Lee's first feature sets the old man's habits against a household that runs on different rules, and Alex is the one standing in the middle.