A lovely movie about a mixed race family in the heart of covid Michigan. From East Asia, Mexico and the Mid-West this family goes through every real life trial and victory. Just saw it at The Milwaukee Film Festival.

Personal portrait of a family during Corona lockdown. Filmed by one of the family members himself, who thought it would be a good idea to record this Corona lockdown period for the future.

It does give a nice insight into the family bonds. It's a loving family for sure, who basically are the embodiment of the American dream. The father came with nothing to America and in the end has a succesful restaurant in a little town called Bad Axe.

The problem with this movie is that it veers into American politics halfway through and only shows the democrat political viewpoint that all Trump voters are racists (or worse).

This immigrant family didnt experience any vicious racism in this little town themselves by the way. The worst that happened to them was that there were some customers stopping from visiting their restaurant because they were anti Trump and because they had put their anti Trump views online for all to see.

I expected a lot more fireworks, based on the short trailer, but all I got to see was a succesful immigrant family complaining that Trump was president and in the end was cheering that fortunately Biden was now their president.

Still a nice personal portrait of an immigrant family in a small American town, but without any real spark or punch and a bit long in the tooth...

As an immigrant coming from very similar circumstances as the Sievs I was interested if their story was a parallel to my own. In fact, they appeared to have become much more successful than my parents' business. Their parents came from war torn Cambodia and Mexico respectively. They married and in short time created a fantastic restaurant business to grow their American dream in Bad Axe.

All seems well until the global pandemic hit Bad Axe. The family now struggle with the shut down mandate. Typical family issues pop between the parents and the children. Jacklyn the eldest daughter is the most outspoken and bears out a lot of the stress.

At the same time, the idea for George Floyd protests in Bad Axe are planted by none other than this family against the wishes of the father. You can imagine how well this goes in town. Jacklyn stewing for a fight flies off the handle calling anti-protesters Nazis. Then they video themselves doxing a woman who called their restaurant. Ultimately, at the end of the movie divine intervention steps in and Biden is declared the winner of the 2020 election. Jacklyn's mission in life is fulfilled it appears.

Throughout the film there were hints and inferences of racism though no proof made it on film. It would not be a stretch to believe the father suffered racism when he arrived in the US as a non-English speaking Asian refugee. By comparison, the children were born in the US and grew up speaking the English language. The father built a business literally from the ground up by keeping his nose to the grindstone. He becomes the owner of a nice big house with acres of land.

Instead of bashing their Trump loving neighbors maybe realize they are the restaurant's clients that helped fund his success. The hyper victimhood was offensive to me since I am an immigrant myself. I wanted to love the story of an American Dream despite the struggle. But these kids decided to place a bigger crisis onto the family restaurant and potentially extinguishing that dream.

I liked the first 10 minutes of the film and cringed all the way to the end.