The Taiwan Oyster manages to be consistently engaging despite its flaws.
The Taiwan Oyster
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Taiwan, United States · 2012
1h 45m
Director Mark Jarrett
Starring Billy Harvey, Jeff Palmiotti, Leonora Lim, Erin King
Genre Drama
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In Taiwan in the year 2000—just thirteen years after the lifting of the Martial Law in Taiwan and a place known as “the wild, wild east,” two young American expats embark on a Kerouac-esque road trip. This darkly comic film explores deep existentialist questions as the friends journey deeper and deeper into the Taiwanese countryside.
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Disguised as a drunken cartwheel through expat paradise, Mark Jarrett’s striking feature juggles questions of mortality along its rowdy cross-country path.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
Mark Jarrett’s amiable road picture has a morbid whimsy and a coming-of-age hook.
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