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Take Out
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Independent films.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 2004
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou's raw, vérité TAKE OUT, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post-9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark, restaurant deliveryman Ming Ding has until nightfall to pay back the money he owes, and he encounters both crushing setbacks and moments of unexpected humanity as he races against time to earn enough in tips over the course of a frantic day. From this simple setup, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of the everyday, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked lives and labor that keep New York running
- Participant:
- Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 2004
- Publisher Number:
- 14376065 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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