I Will Make You Mine

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| name = I Will Make You Mine

| image = I_will_make_you_mine.jpg

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| director = Lynn Chen

| writer = Lynn Chen

| producer = Dave Boyle
Lynn Chen
Mye Hoang
Cathy Shim
Emily Ting

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| music = Goh Nakamura

| cinematography = Bill Otto
Carl Nenzen Loven

| editing = Abe Forman-Greenwald

| studio = Gray Hat

| distributor = Gravitas Ventures

| released = {{Film date|2020|5|26}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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I Will Make You Mine is a 2020 American comedy drama film written and directed by Lynn Chen and starring Chen and Goh Nakamura. It is the third film of a trilogy in which Nakamura plays himself following the Dave Boyle films Surrogate Valentine (2011) and Daylight Savings (2012). It is also Chen's feature directorial debut.

Plot

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Cast

Release

In February 2020, it was announced that Gravitas Ventures acquired distribution rights to the film, which was released on May 26, 2020.{{cite web|last=Ramos|first=Dino-Ray|title='I Will Make You Mine' Trailer: Lynn Chen's Directorial Debut Bookends Indie Quasi-Trilogy; Romantic Dramedy Lands At Gravitas|date=February 26, 2020|website=Deadline Hollywood|url=https://deadline.com/video/i-will-make-you-mine-trailer-lynn-chen-goh-nakamura-ayako-fujitani-gravitas-ventures/|accessdate=January 31, 2024}} It was released on VOD on May 29, 2020.{{cite web|last=Ehrlich|first=David|title='I Will Make You Mine' Review: Cinema's Most Casual Trilogy Ends on a High Note|date=March 18, 2020|website=IndieWire|url=https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/i-will-make-you-mine-review-sxsw-1202218627/|accessdate=January 31, 2024}}

Reception

The film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews.{{cite web|title=I Will Make You Mine|website=Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_will_make_you_mine|accessdate=January 31, 2024}} Bobby LePire of Film Threat rated the film a 6 out of 10.{{cite web|last=LePire|first=Bobby|title=I Will Make You Mine|date=May 26, 2020|website=Film Threat|url=https://filmthreat.com/reviews/i-will-make-you-mine/|accessdate=January 31, 2024}} David Ehrlich of IndieWire graded the film a B. Ty Burr of The Boston Globe awarded the film two and a half stars.{{cite news|last=Burr|first=Ty|title=With 'I Will Make You Mine,' it's back to Goh|date=May 27, 2020|newspaper=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/28/arts/with-i-will-make-you-mine-its-back-goh/|accessdate=January 31, 2024}}

Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review and wrote, "More evolution than sequel, Chen‘s chapter maintains the laidback, low-fi charm and black-and-white aesthetic infused with Nakamura’s dreamy, pensive music but also grows the characters, infusing them with more narrative purpose."{{cite news|last=Crust|first=Kevin|title=Review: The female gaze subtly elevates Asian American trilogy capper 'I Will Make You Mine'|date=May 28, 2020|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-05-28/i-will-make-you-mine-review-lynn-chen|accessdate=January 31, 2024}}

Lisa Kennedy of Variety gave the film a positive review, calling it "a female-forward work with three generously drawn roles for Asian women actors."{{cite magazine|last=Kennedy|first=Lisa|title='I Will Make You Mine': Film Review|date=June 2, 2020|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/i-will-make-you-mine-film-review-1234622916/|accessdate=January 31, 2024}}

Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Soft black-and-white cinematography (by Bill Otto and Carl Nenzen Loven) and low-key humor help offset the limitations of its partly crowd-funded budget, as does the naturalism of the partly improvised performances."{{cite news|last=Catsoulis|first=Jeannette|title='I Will Make You Mine' Review: Three Times a Lady|date=May 28, 2020|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/movies/i-will-make-you-mine-review.html|accessdate=January 31, 2024}}

John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, calling it "A beautifully shot, settled-down finale."{{cite magazine|last=DeFore|first=John|title='I Will Make You Mine': Film Review; SXSW 2020|date=April 8, 2020|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/i-will-make-you-mine-1289250/|accessdate=January 31, 2024}}

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