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Take Out

Take Out

2004, Movie, 1h 28min

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.

Country: United States

Directors:

Shih-Ching Tsou

Cast:

Theodore Bouloukos,

Karren Karagulian

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In the intense drama "Take Out," a Chinese deliveryman in New York City is faced with an impossible deadline: come up with a large sum of money to pay off his smuggling debt or risk dire consequences. With the clock ticking and his options dwindling, he must rely on the kindness of strangers and the meager tips from his delivery jobs to make a miraculous rescue. Will he be able to save himself before time runs out?

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Take Out include There Will Be Blood, The Blind Side, Magnolia, The Ron Clark Story, Miracle Run, The Secret Path.