In 1976 San Francisco, 10-year-old Ivy is a girl who must learn the balance between her two cultural identities — being Chinese, but still wishing to be just like her all-American friend, Julie.
Costume
The 1976 fashion is aggressively accurate and I respect it.
Production
San Francisco period detail on what was clearly not a blockbuster budget.
Acting
Nina Lu carries genuine confusion about belonging with zero precociousness.
Director
Sasie Sealy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2017 but set during the Bicentennial, it quietly interrogates whose 'American' story was being celebrated.
Sasie Sealy later directed Lucky Grandma (2019), making Ivy & Julie a stealth preview of her obsession with intergenerational Chinese-American women.
No ratings yet
6.52004
6.72005
7.12006
6.52008
6.62009
6.82012
7.12013
6.22014
7.42015
6.52016
7.72016
7.82016
2017
7.02017
6.12023
Sign in to join the discussion — comments are spoiler-gated to your watch progress.
Discussion starters
US
