Pushing Hands

Master Chu, an elderly widower and tai chi teacher, leaves Beijing behind to join his son's family in America. His new home offers a different rhythm, but also an insurmountable wall of misunderstanding. His daughter-in-law, a white woman who speaks no Chinese, becomes the living embodiment of a cultural chasm. His son Alex is trapped as a perpetual translator and peacekeeper between his father's world and the demands of his own household. Daily life becomes a series of minor collisions, where even cooking dinner transforms into a battlefield of traditions.