First Night Nerves
First Night Nerves
| 20 December 2018 (USA)
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Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She decides to star in Two Sisters, written and directed by transwoman An Ouyang. But, her biggest rival, He Yuwen, a rising actress, also stars in the play. Yuwen plans her theatrical debut through it. During the preparation of the play, such a drama unfolds at the backstage as much as on stage. With the opening night at Hong Kong’s City Hall Theater just seven days away, tensions at rehearsal increase and tempers flare as actresses Xiuling and Yuwen’s buried resentments rise to the surface.

Reviews
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...