{"id":12824,"date":"2018-11-04T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12824"},"modified":"2018-11-04T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T21:52:15","slug":"crazy-rich-asians-2018-jon-m-chu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12824","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Rich Asians (2018, Jon M. Chu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal college student Rachel (Constance Wu of TV&#8217;s <em>Fresh Off the Boat<\/em>) is invited to a friend&#8217;s wedding by her wonderful, loving boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding of that Anna Kendrick movie this year that looked pretty good), who turns out to be mega-rich, so Nick&#8217;s family looks down on her, and Rachel has to spend the trip placating rich people and deciding whether it&#8217;s worth it.  Rachel happens to have a friend in Singapore, our comic relief Awkwafina (<em>Ocean&#8217;s Eight<\/em>).  The wedding is between Chris Pang (<em>Crouching Tiger 2<\/em>) and Sonoya Mizuno (Kyoko in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10694\">Ex Machina<\/a><\/em>).  Michelle Yeoh (<em>Crouching Tiger 1<\/em>) plays Nick&#8217;s mom whom Rachel has to convince of her worthiness, and Jing Lusi (of Milla Jovovich actioner <em>Survivor<\/em>) is Nick&#8217;s ex who wants to torpedo Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a hit novel, Jon Chu previously made three Justin Bieber movies and <em>Jem and the Holograms<\/em>.  Singapore looks just wonderful &#8211; we should visit and spend all our money there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal college student Rachel (Constance Wu of TV&#8217;s Fresh Off the Boat) is invited to a friend&#8217;s wedding by her wonderful, loving boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding of that Anna Kendrick movie this year that looked pretty good), who turns out to be mega-rich, so Nick&#8217;s family looks down on her, and Rachel has to spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2489,2411],"class_list":["post-12824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-jon-chu","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12860,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions\/12860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}