Hello, movie friends. I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Amy Choi from the Mashup Americans about the movie that changed her life, the Joyla Club. It's okay if you haven't seen it. We're going to give you all of the details you need to follow along. But before we get started, a special shout out to our New York City friends. We're going to be recording a live episode of this movie Changed Me as part of the Work It Podcasting Festival from WNYC Studios.

We're partnering with Newfest's LGBT Film Festival, and I'll be speaking with the fantastic

writer, performer, and comedian, Justin Sayre. Join us for all the movie love and fun on November 14th at 7 p.m. at the GreenSpace.

You can buy tickets now at workit events.com.

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Music A mother started the Joy Luck Club having met all these women in church. Auntie Ame?, anti-Lindo, anti-Yinging.

For 30 years, these women feasted, forgot past wrongs, laughed and played, lost and won,

and told the best stories.

Each week they hope to be lucky, and that hope was their only joy. Their connection with

each other had more to do with hope than joy or luck. The Joy Luck Club is based on this beautiful book by the writer Amy Tan, and it tells the story of four different women who immigrated from China, who moved to San Francisco.

All four of them have different lives, different stories to tell, but they all share the same thing in that they're the mothers of grown Chinese American daughters.

Throughout the movie, we see the stories of the mothers and the daughters intertwine and clash.

Look, she doesn't want it too short.

Otherwise, it'll be too tight for the wedding.

And we don't want it looking too weird or kinky.

Isn't that right, Ma?

Not too kinky.

Why does my daughter think she's translating English for me?

Maybe I don't go.

What do you mean? Maybe I don't go to your wedding.

Oh, don't be ridiculous.

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