On the airplane, Rachel asks her boyfriend why they are staying at a hotel and not with his family. Rachel Chu, a professor of economics and game theory at New York University and New York native, and her boyfriend Nick Young travel to Singapore for the wedding of Nick’s best friend Colin Khoo.

Two sequels, based on the novel's follow-ups China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems, are in development. It also received four nominations at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards, winning one for Best Comedy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. It received a nomination at the 50th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Motion Picture. The film received numerous accolades, including the 76th Golden Globe Awards nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Wu. A major critical and commercial success, the film grossed over $238 million on a budget of $30 million, making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy of the 2010s, and received high praise for the performances of its cast, the screenplay, and production design. Additional criticism was also directed at the film for failing to acknowledge Singapore's multiracial demographic by including other Singaporean ethnic groups-such as Malay and Indian actors-as characters, as well as perpetuating stereotypes of East and Southeast Asians.Ĭrazy Rich Asians premiered on August 7, 2018, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles and was released theatrically in the United States on August 15, 2018, by Warner Bros. Despite such praises, the film received some criticism for casting biracial actors over fully ethnically Chinese ones in certain roles. It is the first film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Chinese descent in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in 1993.

Many of the cast members signed on in the spring of 2017, and filming took place from April to June of that year in parts of Singapore, Malaysia and New York City. The film was announced in August 2012 after the rights to the book were purchased. It follows a Chinese-American professor who travels to meet her boyfriend's family and is surprised to discover they are among the richest in Singapore. The film stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, and Michelle Yeoh. Chu, from a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the 2013 novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan. Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy- drama film directed by Jon M.

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