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Program 45
Directors Guild of America • 7:30 p.m. • Theatre 3
 
TAKE OUT
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker
TAKE OUT is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant, working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. The film focuses on the day Ming has fallen behind with his payments on his enormous smuggling debt. The collectors have given him until the end of the day to deliver the money that is due. After borrowing most from friends and relatives, Ming realizes that the remainder must come from the day's tips. In order to do so, he must make more than double his average daily income.
     In a social-realist style, the camera follows Ming on his deliveries throughout upper manhattan where social and economic extremes exist next door to one another. Intercutting between the deliveries and the daily routine of the restaurant, TAKE OUT presents a harshly real look at the daily lives of illegal Chinese immigrants in New York City 2003.
Video, 91 min., color, Narrative

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