Saving Face (2004)

Wil is a young surgeon in Flushing, Queens, keeping her girlfriend hidden from a Chinese American community that gossips about everything. Then her widowed mother, played by Joan Chen, turns up on the doorstep at 48, unwed, pregnant and with nowhere else to go, and now both of them have a secret. Alice Wu has said she wrote it as a love letter to her own mother, and it shows: the mother is stubborn and proud but never a punchline, and the role reversal is played for warm, gentle comedy. A good choice for a pair where the daughter has had to explain herself, and the mother has more going on than anyone guessed.