An out-of-work Chinese American actor involved with a high school girl learns that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai China. He moves to the exotic city to connect with his ancestry and start a new life but must leave behind the only girl who has ever loved him. Liam (Ken Leung) is a struggling actor wasting his time picking up on beautiful plastic girls in hip Hollywood bars with his buddy Joe (Joel David Moore) a writer who hasn't written a damn thing. The closest thing to an emotional connection in Liam's life is a flirtatious friendship with... 16 year old Adelaide (Hayden Panettiere) a precocious high school girl who is actually more mature than Liam. When Liam learns he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai China he travels to the bright and beautiful city and discovers a profound connection to his family legacy. Liam meets a sophisticated Chinese woman named Micki (Kelly Hu) and finds himself falling into instant infatuation with her. Liam decides to move to China leaving behind Adelaide who is quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him but running away from his problems only lands him in deeper trouble. [show more]
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Bottoming out in the superficial world of Hollywood a young Chinese-American actor Liam Liu gets a chance to start over when he inherits his grandmother's ancestral home in China Travelling to Shanghai for the first time Liu discovers a strange and exciting new world meeting a woman who may change his life forever--but at the expense of an improbable relationship with a high-school girl back in California
Romantic comedy starring Ken Leung and Hayden Panettiere. Liam Liu (Leung) is a struggling Chinese-American actor who is feeling rather conflicted about his deep, yet platonic, friendship with high school girl Adelaide (Panettiere). When Liu inherits his grandmother's ancestral home in China, he sees it as the perfect opportunity to leave the superficial world of Hollywood behind. Travelling to Shanghai for the first time, Liu is unprepared for the massive culture shock that awaits him. In no time at all, he's looking to sell up and move back to Los Angeles. Then he meets the beautiful Micki (Kelly Hu) in a bar and becomes smitten with her, but is he really ready to turn his back on his old life and the girl who truly loves him?
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