Story Line
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
“Based on an actual lie.”
Top Cast
Awkwafina
Billi
Zhao Shuzhen
Nai Nai
Hong Lu
Little Nai Nai
Hong Lin
Doctor Wu
Tzi Ma
Haiyan
Lin Xiao Jie
Lu Jian
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Rating
7.4/ 10
Release Date
2019-07-12
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
ComedyDrama
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Sheldon Nylander
8/10
•11/13/2019When a Chinese family finds out that the family’s matriarch is dying of lung cancer, complications arise. In Chinese culture, there is a saying that when you get cancer, you die. This actually boils down to the belief that it’s not the cancer that le...
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8/10
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Lulu Wang shares an emotional part of her personal life by delivering a beautiful, heartfelt story about her grandmother. Even though The Farewell st...
Peter McGinn
8/10
•5/12/2021This movie is described as a comedy-drama and it is. But I didn’t have many laugh out loud moments. The humor is situational mainly: the writers work up to those moments that make you smile, either because you remember a similar moment in your life, ...
badelf
8/10
•2/1/2026The Farewell (2019)
Directed by Lulu Wang
Lulu Wang's The Farewell begins with a title card: "Based on an actual lie." The lie in question is both simple and profound: when Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen) is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, her fami...