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Watching TV with the Red Chinese is a american film of genre Drama directed by Shimon Dotan released in USA on 2 december 2011 with Leonardo Nam

Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2011)

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Released in USA 2 december 2011
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating60% 3.0461153.0461153.0461153.0461153.046115

Watching TV with the Red Chinese is an independent drama film about a group of Chinese exchange students who arrive in New York in 1980, eager for what America has to offer. They make friends including a literature teacher named Dexter and his girlfriend Suzanne. As they try to adjust to the New York city atmosphere, they become disillusioned with America, eventually buying a firearm for self-defense.

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