EXCLUSIVE: 'Ping Pong Playa' Poster Premiere!
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Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for the film Ping Pong Playa (click image above to enlarge), directed by Jessica Yu (Protagonist). Starring Jimmy Tsai (who also co-wrote the script with Yu), Ping Pong Playa follows one kid who dreams about escaping his dead-end job and playing professional basketball in the NBA ... except his entire family is obsessed with the world of ping pong. His dad runs a ping pong-related store, his mom teaches the sport and his brother is a ping pong champion. Will our hero break away from the pong pressure and live out his b-ballin' dreams, or will he discover that the game he dissed was the game he missed?
In her positive review from last year's Toronto International Film Festival, Cinematical's Monika Bartyzel called Ping Pong Playa "a refreshing reversal from the usual comedic fare -- a lone Asian American beacon of laughs in a sea that usually has only spots of color." Check out the trailer after the jump. Ping Pong Playa arrives in theaters on September 5.
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8-12-2008 @ 3:19PM
Peter Hall said...
What great timing.
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8-12-2008 @ 3:30PM
MCW said...
Looks pretty good, could be no worse than Balls of Fury. Usually Mad TV cast members are better actors on other TV and Movie shows than they are on the terrible MadTV (Case in point, dude from Mad that is on Reno now - Hypothetical criminal).
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8-21-2008 @ 2:16AM
Tosh111 said...
Looking forward to the new movie Ping Pong Playa. It’s about a guy who wants to be a basketball star, but ends up teaching his mother’s ping pong classes after she gets into an accident. Jimmy Tsai looks hilarious as C-Dub! It opens in theaters September 5th. You can find a trailer for Ping Pong Playa here:
www.pingpongplaya.com/us/index.html
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