Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

Jan 21, 2007

1h 24m

★ 4.9

Overview

In 1973, martial arts great Bruce Lee died, his final film, Game of Death, left unfinished. With the public hungry for more Lee, movie execs decide to find a replacement. This outrageous satire looks at the entire process, from the oddball candidates to the greed and racial motivations that drive the final decision. There's big business in the movies, and Finishing the Game skewers it with an eye for '70s detail.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Cherry Sky Films

Trailing Johnson Productions

IFC FIlms

The Weinstein Company

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee Trailers

Cast

Breeze Loo

Roger Fan

Tarrick Tyler

McCaleb Burnett

Cole Kim

Sung Kang

Troy Poon

Dustin Nguyễn

Raja

Mousa Kraish

Dean Silo

James Franco

Ronney Kurtainbaum

Jake Sandvig

Eloise Gazdag

Meredith Scott Lynn

Peter Dowd

Ron Jeremy

Saraghina Rivas

Monique Gabriela Curnen

Martey Kurtainbaum

Sam Bottoms

Additional Extra

Bella Thorne

Jay Mandao is not your average hero. He’s an astral projecting time traveler who spends his days hanging with his adult nephew Jackson, crashing on his scheming cousin Andy’s couch, and riding with his cabbie friend Fer. In the days leading up to Christmas, Jay tries to make contact with his deceased father Raymond, but ends up contacting the ghost of B-movie star, Aura Garcia. Aura enlists the gang to astral project back in time to prevent her death. Jay quickly finds out that the more he messes with time, the more he falls down a rabbit hole of cults, conspiracies, and death. This Christmas is gonna kick astral! The sequel to Mandao of the Dead.

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0.0

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