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Margaret Cho: I’m the One That I Want

Directed by Lionel Coleman2000USA96 mins

We know her. We love her. We laughed with her at open mic night at Josie's Juice Joint and Cabaret. And we cheered when she got her own sitcom, All-American Girl, and the first Asian American lead role on American televi­sion. Now, Margaret Cho is back to share her war stories of fame, drugs, and sex in Hollywood.

Filmed while the show was docked for a special engagement at the Warfield Theatre here in San Francisco, I'm the One That I Want captures her stunning sold-out off-Broadway show. With a bracing wit and biting honesty, Cho chronicles her quick rise to stardom and near fatal demise after the abrupt cancella­tion of her groundbreaking sitcom. This hometown performance is especially sharp and notably poignant for Cho, whose Korean parents are in the audience seeing her live for the very first time.

Describing herself not as gay, lesbian, or queer, but "just slutty," Cho boldly challenges a racist, homophobic, sexist world by promis­ing to stick around, "...at least until the next Korean American, fag hag, shit-starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place." Based on her renewed success, it will take more than that to keep Cho down.

Margaret Cho will be here in person to present the world premiere of her soon to be released film.

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Margaret Cho
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Director
Lionel Coleman
Year
2000
Country
USA
Running Time
96 mins
Language
English
Premiere
World