"Sweet 20" is a sweet and heartfelt film which is both helped and hurt by its Vietnamese origins. Most significantly, however, it's interesting as an American to observe Vietnamese comic sensibilities and gain some insight into modern Vietnamese culture by the way they tell a story. Also, the majority of these age-changing comedies feature a male protagonist, so making the main character a female opens up different story-telling possibilities. For example, you could compare "Sweet 20" with some aspects of "Back to the Future" – IF you switched the mother-son relationship to a grandmother-grandson relationship.
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"Sweet 20" will remind Movie Fans of any number of similar films like the Tom Hanks comedy "Big" (1988) or Zac Efron's "17 Again" (2009), but this film is different in a few important ways. Of course, no one recognizes her, so as she hears talk of this "missing" grandmother, she learns how people really feel about her – good and bad – and it affects her in humorous and serious ways. Granny rents a room in her boyfriend's house, befriends her grandson as a peer and poses as his girlfriend when she meets his family. She becomes a singer in a band and attracts the attention of a record company producer who wants to work with her and get to know her better. She buys some new clothes and decides to use her newly beautiful, healthy body to live out the unfulfilled dreams of her youth. When she gets over the initial shock of whatever has happened to her, she decides to enjoy it, as she says, whether it's real or it's a dream. The photographer says he'll make her look 50 years younger – and he does! Granny comes out of the studio looking like her 20-year-old self. This is a grandmother who means well, but is in such a state of mind that, when she comes across a photo studio, she goes inside to get her funeral portrait made. When granny bumps into a former co-worker, we learn that granny has caused problems in the past for people outside her family too. Granny has also aroused jealousy in another woman who wants granny's boyfriend for herself.
Granny has a boyfriend, a widower whose spoiled adult daughter fears that granny is going to come between her and her father. She lives with her son and his wife and children, but granny is critical of her daughter-in-law's cooking and parenting, while granny's son resents the strife that his mother brings into his household. The story centers around a 70-year-old Vietnamese grandmother who has trouble getting along with just about everyone.
It may not draw large audiences in the U.S., but it's a fun and insightful movie that deserves a look from Movie Fans who enjoy funny and sweet films – and learning something about other cultures. The film became the highest grossing domestic film ever released in Vietnam. The Vietnamese version is "Em là bà nội của anh", which translates to "You Are My Grandmother", but was re-titled "Sweet 20" (NR, 2:07) for a limited release in the United States. Add another year to the calendar and you get no less than four more remakes of the film – in Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. In early 2015, China released its own version of the film, calling it "重返20岁" ("20 Once Again"). The comedy-drama was a huge hit at the South Korean box office, but the best indication of how much people liked the film came when other countries started copying it. Take the 2014 South Korean film " 수상한 그녀" ("Miss Granny") for example. How do you know? Well, if people copy or imitate what you do, their actions are speaking louder than their words, and you can feel pretty confident that their kind words are sincere. Maybe they meant it and maybe they were just being nice or trying to be supportive. If you're involved in some sort of creative endeavor or other kind of innovation, people have probably complimented you on your work. As the saying goes: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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