The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club is about a group of four Chinese women all born in China with different background, experiences and stories that came to the United States at some point in their lives and became friends. The point if the movie is the relationship and the influence they all have in their now adult daughters and how they each suffered a lot when in China but did not tell their daughters their story because they wanted them to have their best chance here and be the best mom possible. The movie starts by one of the daughters taking her mom's place at the chest table with the rest of the group, since her mother is gone she now takes her place. She finds out through her mother's friends that the twins her mother gave up when she lived in China due to the fact that she was so sick she thought she would die are alive and she arranges a trip to go meet them. Another one of the daughters is divorced with a baby girl from her Chinese ex husband and is working on her mother liking her new husband to be who is an American. The third daughter is married to a man that is rich but also splits absolutely everything in half and that causes her to be miserable in her own home, her mother can't stand to see this and does everything possible so she could leave him. The last daughter is currently getting divorce but still in love with her husband, she was madly in love with him when they got married but lost herself in the marriage trying to make him happy. Towards the end of the movie it looks like they get back together because at last she was honest with him and told him how she truly felt and wanted. The daughter who lost her mom travels to China and meets her twin sister while at the same time breaking the news that her mother has passed away.
The theme of the movie is starting a new life in a new country trying to leave the past one behind but never the traditions or culture. 
I liked this movie a lot, I believe that once a generation comes here and they start off fresh they leave the bad and suffering behind in order to not prejudice their children with it. I love that even though they suffered a lot they were strong women who only wanted the best for their daughters and had they tradition, culture and norms intact.