{"id":6799,"date":"2021-09-08T00:47:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T00:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieroar.net\/movietrailers\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2021-09-21T03:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T03:53:43","slug":"secrets-draw-blue-bayou-american-past-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieroar.net\/movietrailers\/2021\/09\/secrets-draw-blue-bayou-american-past-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets Draw “Blue Bayou” American Past and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Written and directed by Justin Chon, who also stars in Blue Bayou<\/em>, it is a moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. New Orleans tattoo artist Antonio LeBlanc, played by Justin Chon, is a devoted family man looking to build a better life for pregnant wife Kathy, played by Alicia Vikander, and precocious step-daughter Jessie, played by Sydney Kowalske.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(L to R) Actor Alicia Vikander, actor Sydney Kowalske and actor\/writer\/director Justin Chon on the set of BLUE BAYOU, a Focus Features release. Credit: Focus Features<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But for an ex-con with a checkered past, opportunity can be hard to come by, meaning money is always tight, especially with a new baby on the way. Complicating matters is Kathy\u2019s ex Ace, played by Mark O\u2019Brien, a Louisiana cop. He wants to play a more prominent role in Jessie\u2019s life \u2014 despite having abandoned the girl and her mother years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a family spat unexpectedly leads to a grocery store confrontation with Ace and his racist partner, Denny, played by Emory Cohen, Antonio is arrested and transferred into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Despite being in America since the age of three, the Korean-American adoptee \u2014 married to an American citizen \u2014 faces deportation from the only country he\u2019s ever known as home. Trapped in a waking nightmare, Antonio and Kathy seek legal assistance to help fight the deportation order, only to discover that they have precious little hope of keeping their family together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Antonio facing an uncertain future, he finds an unlikely ally and source of support in a Vietnamese-American woman named Parker, played by Linh-Dan Pham, who also is at a place where she is struggling to come to terms with a difficult truth. Determined to remain near his loved ones, an increasingly desperate Antonio forces himself to confront his past, going to ever more extraordinary lengths to stay on American soil. But the painful secrets that come to light threaten to upend his relationships with Kathy and Jessie \u2014 even as Denny resolves to seal Antonio\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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