“American Fusion” was on the Asian American film festival circuit about 2 year ago. The film is written and directed by Frank Lin and features one of Pat Morita’s last performances. If you missed it, you now have a chance to get it on DVD. Buy the American Fusion DVD. Here’s the synopsis of the film:

Yvonne (Sylvia Chang) is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family.

Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance for true love. However, she falls for the last person a Chinese family would ever accept, Jose, a Mexican- American dentist. To make matters worse, Yvonne’s 70-year-old mother hurts her back in a massage accident, and uses her suffering to guilt all her children into doing her bidding.

Now to find true happiness, Yvonne must overcome her demanding siblings, 5,000 years of conservative Chinese tradition, and one tyrannical mother who is about to undergo major back surgery!

Yvonne and her family are swept up in a whirlwind of misadventures, which leads them to a near tragic climax. As they are about to lose Grandma, the family learns the true meaning of being American.

American Fusion Trailer