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In the months before its theatrical release,
Red Doors was distinguished multiply: it won Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, a distributor, and a pilot order from CBS, which hopes to turn the film into a weekly series. Unfortunately, the storytelling here—by writer-director Georgia Lee—is disjointed, precious, clumsy, and self-consciously quirky. The Chinese-American Wong family is comprised of three ambitious daughters, a worrying mother, and a father (Tzi Ma of
The Ladykillers) whose nervous breakdown leads him to run away to a Buddhist monastery. One daughter's having cold feet about her wedding, another is a lesbian replaying
Saving Face, the third is a precocious high-schooler in a prank war with her puppy-lover.
