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Dark Matter

Rating:R (for a scene of violence, brief sexual content and language)
Genre:Drama
Release Date:April 11, 2008
Running time:90 minutes
Cast:Meryl Streep, Ye Liu, Aidan Quinn, Blair Brown, Erick Avari
Director:Chen Shi-Zheng
Producer:Kirk D'Amico, Linda Chiu
Writer:Billy Shebar
Distributor:First Independent Pictures

Description: "Dark Matter" delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for "Shooting Star"), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. in the United States during the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life, until he loses his way.

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