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Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want (2000)

Filmed live in concert

Genre : Comedy

Runtime : 1H 36M

Director : Lionel Coleman

Synopsis

November, 1999, Margaret Cho is home in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. Cho structures her monologue loosely on her professional life's trajectory: doing stand-up, cast in an ABC-TV sitcom, losing 30 pounds in two weeks for the part, the show's cancellation, a descent into booze, pills, and self-loathing, and a resurrection into her own voice, her own shape, and being the one she wants.

Actors

Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Herself

Crews

Lionel Coleman
Lionel Coleman
Director
Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Writer
Lorene Machado
Lorene Machado
Producer
Frankii Elliott
Frankii Elliott
Music
Lionel Coleman
Lionel Coleman
Cinematography
Robyn T. Migel
Robyn T. Migel
Editor

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