Cast: Karin Anna Cheung, Archie Kao, Wilson Cruz, Randall Park and James Shigeta
Synopsis: Angela Yang knows what she wants -- SEX -- and doesn’t mind who knows it. Her nightly crawls through the city’s bars have given her enough partners to make Hugh Hefner blush: Asian, Caucasian, Latino and Black; men and women, anyone will do. All things change, however, when she suddenly discovers that she’s pregnant. Armed only with those photos and some drunken memories, Angela starts tracking down each of the many “father” possibilities. "Thankfully updating the typically bland Hollywood rom-com with some refreshing openness towards female sexuality and an appealing multiracial line-up, the film also boasts a radiant lead duo in Karin Anna Cheung and Archie Kao, who bring a star power and screen presence that not only match, but overshadow, the casts of any current Hollywood romance."--Filmmaker Magazine
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Reviews:
A saucy comedy that deftly turns serious
By Kevin Thomas
Director Quentin Lee continues to explore the Asian American experience in his fourth feature, "The People I've Slept With," a saucy comedy that deftly turns serious. As in such films as "Shopping for Fangs," which took an amused look at sex and materialism in upscale suburbia, and "Ethan Mao," in which a gay youth copes with his ultra-traditional, homophobic family, Lee finds the universal in the particular: You don't have to be Asian to identify with his people and their predicaments.
Lovely, free-spirited Angela (Karin Anna Cheung), an aspiring artist, has taken quite literally the advice of her friend Gabriel ( Wilson Cruz) to "relax and have fun." Unfortunately, she realizes there were four instances, among many, in which she engaged in unprotected sex, and now she's pregnant. Screenwriter Koji Steven Sakai, in sync with Lee's detached yet caring sensibility, sends Angela off to determine in this age of DNA testing which of the four candidates is the father.
Over time, Angela becomes increasingly aware of the challenges and choices she faces. If she should ascertain the identity of her unborn child's father, then what? Throughout the film a subtext suggests that young people, especially Asian Americans, need to think for themselves rather than feel obligated to fulfill their parents' expectations.
