Product Details

• Actors: Li Ling
• Directors: Wayne Wang
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Cantonese, English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001RJ1Y5S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,241 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Princess of Nebraska" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Sasha (Ling Li) is part of the new youth generation of China, unbeholden to traditions and history, always trying to find themselves in the present moment. An exchange student in Nebraska, Sasha is pregnant after a one-night stand with Yang, a young man she knew briefly in Beijing. He was a ?nan dan,? a male actor who specializes in female roles in the Beijing Opera. She departs for San Francisco, where she plans to get an abortion.

Boshen (Brian Danforth), a Caucasian American, who had an affair with Yang while living in China, takes Sasha in, hoping to persuade her to keep the child. However, Sasha is determined to do what she pleases ? it?s her body, it?s her future. She wants to explore the new options open to her.

Sasha soon meets X, a bar hostess who reminds her of Yang, and they entertain a group of businessmen in a private karaoke room. Later she spends the night with X. Throughout, Sasha is text-messaging Yang, who never responds. She also creates a video diary with her cell phone which is intercut throughout the narrative. Along with her yearning for freedom, she also longs for connection.

At an ultrasound appointment, Sasha she sees the life growing inside her and something in her countenance changes. Boshen has talked to her about setting up a family, a new kind of family. Perhaps she will make a different decision after all.

Sasha leaves the clinic and watches a parade. In the final sequence, she is by herself, in a large empty room, lip-synching to the plaintive song by Antony and the Johnsons, ?Hope There's Someone,? which begins ?Hope there?s someone/Who'll take care of me/When I die, will I go.?

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Whisper of a movie., January 22, 2010

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Laronent (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Princess of Nebraska (DVD)

I've always have been a fan of Wayne Wang and this film is the reason why. A Young girl finds out she is going to have a baby. Is she going to have a abortion? Is she going to keep the baby? Is she going to sell her baby in the illegal baby market? The beautiful Ling Li
plays the young girl not as a victim, but as a strong vocal person trying to make up her mind. Or is she just bored and every idea that pops in her mind she runs with it for that moment. One moment she can be very sexy and cunning, and the next she can be waif like and innocent. We watch this film as if we are picking into a window. I don't think it was the director's idea to let us fully into her world. It's like listening to a couple of 18 year old girls talking at the bus stop and their ideas and thoughts jumping all over the place. We may think their is no substance to what they say, but to them nothing else matters except what they think and feel. It's slow
moving, but I did not want to be rushed. There is a beautiful moment (one of many)where she looks at herself in a mirror and she is looking at her belly. Her belly bearly shows she is going to have a baby,which by the way helps her when she wants to hang out at bars.
The special features are great. My favorite is the photo gallery on making this film. The photos and there are quite a few of Ms. Li are breath taking. This woman is mad beautiful.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Concentration, July 9, 2009

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AD "AD" (Lakewood, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Princess of Nebraska (DVD)

This is one of those films which requires a great deal of concentration and some intuition to keep up with. It is a good and well-done movie that treats accidental pregnancy with respect and caring. It tries to show the emotions and thoughts a young lady would probably go through in living the situation. The ending is incredibly realistic though very symbolic, enigmatic and perplexing. The ending could give one a sense of hopelessness, but in reality, it is just another mountain to move or wall to break through.