A Tourist's Guide to Love and Adventure
Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.

Two friends, street vendors, pretend to be tourists, hoping to find a wealthy bride. They end up, along with another friend, at a posh hotel where, after many twists and turns, they fall in love with the women of their dreams.
Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
What makes the lighting in Casablanca even more impressive is how it reflects the emotional states of the characters without needing explicit dialogue.
Suppressed intergenerational family trauma and healing, warm welcome to the Marvel Cinematic Universe team, and Awkwafina's humor really make this film the real MVP.