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Front Cover
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Ryan is an openly gay fashion stylist. One day Ryan’s boss assigns him to style Ning, a famous Chinese actor for an important photo shoot. Their relationship grows gradually. But when their story is published in a newspaper, Ning implores Ryan to deny the story because Ning terrifies the story maybe effect on his career. Ryan has to decide help Ning or stay true to himself.
Ryan is an openly gay fashion stylist. One day Ryan’s boss assigns him to style Ning, a famous Chinese actor for an important photo shoot. Their relationship grows gradually. But when their story is published in a newspaper, Ning implores Ryan to deny the story because Ning terrifies the story maybe effect on his career. Ryan has to decide help Ning or stay true to himself.
Actors:
Miki Hanta,
Brian Knoebel,
Benjamin Thys,
Alice Leung,
Connie Saltzman,
Ming Lee,
Robert Gorman,
William Yuekun Wu,
Elizabeth Sung,
Peter Benson,
Tom Ligon,
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Miki Hanta
Brian Knoebel
Benjamin Thys
Alice Leung
Connie Saltzman
Ming Lee
Robert Gorman
William Yuekun Wu
Elizabeth Sung
14 October 1954, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Peter Benson
Tom Ligon
10 September 1940, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Director:
Ray Yeung
Ray Yeung
Country:
United States
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August 05, 2016
While the film adheres to the conventions of romantic melodramas, its fascinations from a cultural perspective remain strong throughout.
August 05, 2016
Whatever nuance can be found in Front Cover, the story of an openly gay fashion stylist and a seemingly homophobic Chinese movie star, belongs chiefly to the performances of Jake Choi and James Chen.
August 04, 2016
Though too slight to be memorable, the gay romance "Front Cover" takes a gentle, thoughtful look at the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality.
August 04, 2016
[A] predictable but occasionally endearing romantic comedy.
October 25, 2016
For all its awkwardness in bridging the personal and the cultural, Front Cover does deliver as a nice little romantic comedy with a pair of endearing leads.
August 11, 2016
It's a root-worthy picture with its share of warm, amusing moments, an attractive pair of leads and a vivid use of Big Apple locales.
August 01, 2016
The very few instances where stereotypes are challenged are forced and didactically delivered.
August 05, 2016
If there isn't much subtlety or surprise in Yeung's screenplay, his direction is graceful enough to make this a pleasant if unmemorable bittersweet love story.
August 05, 2016
[A] sexy, ambitious comic drama.
September 29, 2016
The film's examination of the first-generation American experience feels fresh. The delivery, however, is hardly original.
January 02, 2017
These good intentions never translate into a good movie.