Plot Summary:Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial identities, they find other suitable mates but cannot stay away from each other.
'Watching 'Americanese' after movies like 'Failure to Launch,' I felt like I'd wandered into the grown-up cinema. ...It's a strange thing about characters in movies: The more 'universal' they are, the more provincial. The more specific they are, the more they are exactly themselves, the more we can identify with them.' --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-times