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Ping Pong Playa (2007)

Ping Pong Playa poster
Directed by
Jessica Yu
Genre
sport film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 53 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family runs a ping pong business in California. Their slacker son is forced to step up and compete when his brother gets injured.

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What happens

Ping Pong Playa is a 2007 American sports comedy film directed by Jessica Yu and written by Yu and Jimmy Tsai. The story centers on a Chinese ping pong family living in California with a buffoonish and irreverent son. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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