Film & Performance

The Joy Luck Club (1993)

Film still showing two Asian women standing close to each other, holding hands.
Princeton Garden Theatre
September 30, 2026 7–9 p.m.

A series of landmark films exploring the diversity of the American experience

In this 1993 adaptation of the author Amy Tan’s celebrated novel, a group of Chinese immigrant women across generations share personal stories over games of mahjong. Rated R; 139 minutes. $13.75 ($8.50 members)   

Introduced by Rachael Z. DeLue, director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative and Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Effron Center for the Study of America.

This film screening is part of the Re-visioning America Film Series, featuring directors who explore what is means to be an American. Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University’s Humanities Initiative, Art Against Racism, and the Princeton Garden Theatre.