Crew
PL
Perry Lin
Director
DZ
Debi Zelko
Producer
LF
Liz Foley
Producer
PL
Perry Lin
Writer
Cast
GC
Gina Chai
Kathy Chu
SM
Stella Ma
Young Kathy
JC
Jim Chu
Kirby Wang
JS
Jo Shui
Narrator
Seventeen Years to Earth
199823m8.0 (2)
RomanceDrama
For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister doesn't want to spend time with her, Kathy invents and records a happy encounter) and rejections (she's teased for being Asian, but she writes about what fun she had with friends). Her hopes to be a writer compound the irony of her journal's disconnection. In college and after graduation, one of her closest friends is Kirby, who is also Asian. She denies any romantic attraction, and when they do become lovers, it's her diary that brings a crisis to their relationship and to her identify. Kathy falls back to earth.
