Peggy Su! (1998)

Directed by

Frances-Anne Solomon

Genre

comedy, romance

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Chinese-British woman tries to balance her family's expectations with her own desires in 1960s Liverpool. She works in her parents' laundrette and dreams of a different life.

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What happens

Peggy Su! is a 1998 film written by Anglo-Chinese playwright Kevin Wong, directed by Frances-Anne Solomon and starring Pamela Oei. His own experience and background being the son of Chinese immigrants working in the laundry business was used. It was directed by Trinidadian Frances-Anne Solomon who had previously worked on What My Mother Told Me in 1994 and Bideshi in 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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