I'm the One That I Want (2000)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Lionel Coleman

Writer:

Margaret Cho (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

November, 1999, Margaret Cho is home in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. Cho structures her monologue...

Plot Keywords:

Mother Daughter Relationship | Gay Interest | Stand Up Comedy | Korean American | Gay Slur

Cast

Margaret Cho

...

Herself

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Cho Taussig Productions

Quotes:

Margaret Cho: I was on this ship with 800 lesbians... we can't get off... so much drama. 'Were you looking at her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her? Well were you?'

Movie Connections:

References Tae-Bo Workout (1999) (V)

Soundtrack:

BAD REPUTATION

Don't let the title deceive you

It's a torrent of self-hate that pours through this scabrously funny ninety-minute concert by the Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho, whose work here is a peak that bears comparison to Chris Rock and Richard Pryor--the tallest praise I can muster. Cho's unclassifiable id--Asian-American omnisexual is a poor sticker for the self she unloads here--can find no name, no resting place, and no club that will have it as a member. Never has alienation been so explosively hilarious. And beyond the content of her work, Cho is a master of her craft, a genius manipulator of silence, long-held muggy faces, microphone-stand grasps, lunges for the water bottle, and sheer stillness. Her precision can be scary. There is a little too much face-pulling and playing to the balcony of Boys' Town (Cho's "I am a faghag!" shtik seems designed to churn up microwaved warmth from her fan base). But there are many moments--especially Cho's rendering of her inexplicably insane-seeming mom--that could stand toe to toe with Lenny Bruce and Pryor at their tops.