Blu-ray
Take out
Call Number
- BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
In Mandarin and English, with English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee, Justin Wan.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
"The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou's raw, vérité Take Out, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post-9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark, restaurant deliveryman Ming Ding has until nightfall to pay back the money he owes, and he encounters both crushing setbacks and moments of unexpected humanity as he races against time to earn enough in tips over the course of a frantic day. From this simple setup, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of the everyday, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked lives and labor that keep New York running."--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, with uncompressed stereo soundtrakc ; audio commentary featuring Baker, Tsou, and actor Charles Jung ; new interviews with Baker, Tsou, Jang, and actors Wang-Thye Lee and Jeng-Hua Yu ; program about the making of the film ; deleted scenes ; screen test ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.