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In this twist on the "Cyrano de Bergerac" tale, a Chinese-American teen (Leah Lewis) and her impoverished widowed father (Collin Chou) are social outcasts in an all-white town. Male classmates often shout racial slurs at her and feeling life is unbearable, she agrees to write a young man's (Daniel Diemer) love letters for $50, not counting on falling in love with the boy's intended girlfriend (Alexxis Lemire). Also with Enrique Murciano, Wolfgang Novogratz and Becky Ann Baker. Directed by Alice Wu. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Mandarin with English subtitles and a few lines . . .

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