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Family Inc. (2008) is a English,Mandarin movie. Helen Jen,Emily Ting has directed this movie. Joshua Cohen,Paola Cohen,Randy Kane,Linda Lam are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Family Inc. (2008) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
When filmmaker Emily Ting was asked by her father to return to Asia and take over the family business, she didn't exactly know how to say 'no.' Promising herself she would try it out for just one year, she traded in her friends, her filmmaking pursuits, and her love of New York for a grueling new life as CEO in training in one of Hong Kong's most notorious toy companies. Two years later, she's still there - with no end in sight. From picking up the slack left behind by a runaway brother to steering a sinking company on the brink of bankruptcy to competing against a 26 year old step mom for the future reign, Emily finds herself getting more and more stuck in a life she didn't choose for herself. But her biggest challenge yet is in trying to reconnect with an absentee father whose passion for his business has outshone his relationship with his family. In an attempt to come to terms with her new life, Emily turns the camera on herself and her family and the result is an incredibly honest...
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The pain (and pleasures?) of keeping it 'all in the family'
Filmmaker Emily Ting documents her reluctant return to her long- separated and aging father to learn (and potentially take over) the family-owned business. This documentary is presently screening on The Documentary Channel. Comprised of a series of narrated family histories, talking-head interviews, and third-person observed interactions, the concept may seem mundane and MTV 'True Life'-like at first, but it's elevated by exploration of themes like cultural differences between East versus West (or tradition vs modernity), fate versus choice, etc. Having spent the majority of her life in the United States apart from her workaholic father, in Hong Kong, where he operates a multi-million toy company, the filmmaker agrees to return to help run the family business in exchange for filming access throughout the process. Seen through the perspective of the daughter over a period of a few years, the documentary is relatively free of the trappings of melodrama (e.g. an epiphany father-daughter bonding moment of sobs and sorry's), although some of the talking-head interviews do sometimes feel more like the complaints of an insolent and privileged teenager. The extent of the father's dedication to his work is evidenced by his two failed marriages and tenuous relationships with his children (e.g. his two teenage daughters feel like strangers after nary a visit one year). Nonetheless, all characters portrayed evoke empathy, even the seemingly heartless father. The central theme of the work-life role conflict as endured by the filmmaker's father is further explored via similar predicaments involving her fiancé and employees of the family business. The soundtrack is relatively absent in terms of music, but the few moments that were scored felt more intrusive than supplemental. Well- edited, the narrative to which the audience is drawn, ultimately, is that of the question whether the filmmaker stays in China to continue running the family business.