Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "Dìdi," writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban Northern California hometown of Fremont to tell a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Izaac Wang in Didi. The Sundance Film Festival is often a place where indie hit and award-winning movies get their start, and the ...

All coming-of-age movies essentially hit the same beats: the getting of wisdom, the loss of innocence, the passage from childhood to some hard-won form of adulthood. Only the names, regions, eras and ...

Focus Features has shared the first Didi trailer for its upcoming coming-of-age movie from director Sean Wang. The upcoming film tells the story of a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy who is learning ...

The Sundance Film Festival 2024 coverage continues with two entries involving youth and navigating social circles at a vulnerable age. The first is a sequel to the documentary Boys State titled Girls ...

Coming-of-age stories are a timeless tradition in the film industry. For decades, Hollywood has been flooded with movies that center on the trials of growing up and aim to capture the relatable, ...

Finding your way as a teenager can be brutal. A whirlwind of big emotions and desires is tough to make sense of, let alone communicate. The need for social acceptance can feel intensely urgent, even ...

All unhappy teenage coming-of-age movies are unhappy in the same way — Tolstoy didn’t say that, I did — meaning that hormonal confusion, social insecurity, failed stabs at hipness and mortification on ...

Growing up can be a real pain. Set in the summer of 2008, Dìdi (弟弟) is a coming-of-age comedy-drama movie written and directed by Sean Wang. This film follows 13-year-old Chris (Izaac Wang) as he ...

In the bittersweet coming-of-age film “Dìdi,” the 13-year-old title character answers to several names. His family — including his attentive mother, his live-in grandmother, and his antagonistic older ...

This semi-autobiographical directorial debut (featuring Joan Chen) follows a Taiwanese American boy over his last summer before high school in 2008 Northern California. By Angie Han Television Critic ...

Director Sean Wang on how he used his Google Creative Labs experience to turn 2008-era AIM and Myspace into cinematic storytelling tools. In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban ...