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Billi returns to China for a family gathering secretly devised to say goodbye to the beloved matriarch, who happens to be the only one unaware she has weeks to live.
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The Farewell (2019)
100 min
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.