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Dìdi
Directed by
Sean Wang
R
2024
1h 34m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.4
96%
91%
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In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
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Cast of Dìdi
Izaac Wang
Chris Wang
Joan Chen
Chungsing Wang
Shirley Chen
Vivian Wang
Chang Li Hua
Nǎi Nai
Mahaela Park
Madi
Raul Dial
Fahad
Aaron Chang
Soup
Chiron Cillia Denk
Donovan
Sunil Mukherjee Maurillo
Cory
Montay Boseman
Nugget
Alysha Syed
Jade
Alaysia Simmons
Ellie
Tarnvir Kamboj
Hardeep
Shiu Fang Wang
Shiu Fang
Jayden Chiang
Max
Joziah Lagonoy
Josh
Joshua Hankerson
Mack
Georgie August
Georgia
Kade Hunter
Colin
Jerri Bowen
Mrs. Miller
David Leal
Rent-A-Cop
Mackenzie Peters
Visual Arts Club Rep
Da Marcus Da'Man Shigon Gray
Tyshawn
Cameron Foxly
Kissing Couple
Emma Foxly
Kissing Couple
Spike Jonze
Dead Squirrel (voice)
Sheng Wang
Dead Fish (voice)
Stephanie Hsu
Kissing Tutorial Instructor (voice)
Dìdi Ratings & Reviews
Desmond Dale
January 24, 2025
It's hard to make a coming of age movie that feels like a true slice of life and be easily relatable because growth rarely happens in any sort of linearity and often times there are more than a few years that feel like downward slopes. Didi is so refreshing and feels like a true shared experience just given the writer's willingness to often paint his protagonist/avatar in a not so flattering light and make fun of himself and the deep idiosyncracies of his family unit. The dialogue captures the generational divide between the mother and son in a way that feels unbiased and insightful. And the teenagers exhibited a happy medium of maturity and vulgarity in which many of its peers struggled. Didi is also absurdly funny in a way that doesn't feel canned or telegraphed. Often times there's intimate context that lifts a humorous moment into what feels like an acknowledgement of a common shared experience. I felt especially privvy to the insider context of the film as a fellow minority skater who started around the same age as the subject. Although, I don't think I was ever quite as vitriolic to my friend group; I do appreciate the willingness to show an adolescent character struggling to figure things out who doesn't miraculously figure everything out by the end.
rg9400
November 1, 2024
Didi perfectly captures the feeling of being on the cusp of high school during 2008. It matches up with when I was entering high school, and I was impressed at how much Sean Wang was able to capture, whether it was the technology at the time, the slang, or my own personal experiences of growing up as a second-generation immigrant with social anxiety. The movie begins with a very lighthearted tone with plenty of humor, but it becomes a lot more somber as it goes along. Even though it is centered around the autobiographical story of the director via the main character Chris, it also manages to explore the relationships between other members of his family in the background. In particular, I thought Joan Chen as his mother did a fantastic job, and I found her character to be my favorite. It's a sweet movie that just plops the viewer down into this summer as it unfolds. Whether Sean Wang is showing the way his characters use the computer or the old-school filming of skateboarding, he is effortlessly able to capture the experience visually even if it isn't the flashiest cinematography. I just wish the movie gave us a bit more with the ending because it felt a bit abrupt.
Steven Woods
October 16, 2024
An effective enough coming-of-age film that (for better or worse) many of us can relate to (and cringe at). Like most of our real-life childhoods though, I'm not really sure it was worth making a feature film about.
BigAbouAL
October 9, 2024
Going in thinking it's Comedy, but definately not. Movie is good but go into it as a Drama.
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Dwight Brown
There's enough good comedy/drama here to spawn a TV or streaming series that could become an integral part of American pop culture.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
The film speaks unflinchingly to the unique anxieties and frustrations of early teenhood.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A superb coming-of-age saga that lives in the intersection of youthful euphoria, despair, insecurity, irresponsibility, and fearlessness.
Associated Press
Kaitlyn Huamani
Dìdi's greatest strength lies in the balance it strikes between moments of levity and gravity, often prompting waves of laughter seconds after evoking tears.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
Wang zeroes in on this specific, fleeting moment of life, just a couple of months long, and throws it under his cinematic microscope, examining all the awkward agony and brief ecstasies of this age.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
It recreates the sensation of drowning in your own hormone-churned emotions so vividly that the film would be difficult to watch if its very existence didn't serve as a kind of pressure valve.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
This film marks the emergence of a potentially great dramatic filmmaker, and that makes sense. After all, this is a great film.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
A funny, heartfelt movie, tapping into the audience's latent memories as well as our great relief at no longer being 13.
Mashable
Kristy Puchko
Dìdi isn't just a good coming-of-age movie or a great coming-of-age movie. Dìdi is unquestionably one of the most poignant and very best movies of the year.
Observer
Oliver Jones
Set in the early days of social media's takeover, Sean Wang's debut feature about a Taiwanese American kid growing up in the East Bay perfectly captures the emotional jumble of boyhood.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Dìdi doesn't feel like an exorcism or someone trying to make peace with a younger self... It's more like Wang is curious as to who that boy was, and is recreating a movable scrapbook to figure him out better.
Washington Blade
Ty Burr
The advantage of Wang's film is ultimately in particularity - the agonies and ecstasies of this kid in this culture, trying desperately to figure out who he wants to be while being cherished, in all his aggravating wonder, by the man he became.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
If nothing else, "Dìdi" understands, to an astonishing degree, what it's like to be an awkward teenage boy.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
It's a more universal study of being a teenage boy, trying to find something like a sense of identity and working out which lies you can and can't tell yourself.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Claudia Puig
It's such a tender, funny, and honest portrait of being that most awkward of ages: thirteen.
San Francisco Chronicle
Hannah Bae
Wang, the director, is smart to spend much of the camera's time lingering on the young star's expressive face as his wide, inky eyes take in the world around him.
Watch Dìdi Videos
Didi: More Than A Mother (Behind The Scenes)
Didi: More Than A Mother (Behind The Scenes)
Behind the Scenes
Didi: Sean Wang On Capturing The 2000s In Film
Didi: Sean Wang On Capturing The 2000s In Film
Behind the Scenes
Didi: I'm Chris' Mother
Didi: I'm Chris' Mother
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Didi: You Should Add Me
Didi: You Should Add Me
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Didi: You're Pretty Cute
Didi: You're Pretty Cute
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Didi: Don't Show Your ABC
Didi: Don't Show Your ABC
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Didi: You're Too Dramatic
Didi: You're Too Dramatic
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Didi: How To Kiss Like A Pro
Didi: How To Kiss Like A Pro
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Didi: Don't Go To College So Far
Didi: Don't Go To College So Far
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