The R-rated comedy is ready to make jokes about threesomes and drug smuggling but can’t bring itself to lean into anything truly discomfiting.
screenwriter Adele Lim, may be a celebration of the kind of behaving badly that involves stuffing drugs up orifices, indulging in spontaneous three-ways, and revealing an intimate tattoo to the world. But when it comes to the kind of bad behavior that might actually test the likability of members of its ensemble, the film wimps out.
It’s Audrey who gets the plot moving, courtesy of her job as an associate at a law firm, where she’s parlayed her identity into an opportunity to land a deal with a Beijing businessman played by Ronny Chieng and where she’s vying for partner among a pack of white men. Audrey is comfortable being the only Asian in the room — she and her bestie Lolo grew up in the Washington town of White Hills, whose name applies literally.
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