Director Randall Park, with acting credits like “Veep,” “Fresh off the Boat” and as Marvel’s agent Jimmy Woo, found in “Shortcomings” a bridge to his own youth.
For Randall Park, stepping behind the camera to direct “Shortcomings” was a chance to fully present a complex Asian-American struggling to understand himself.
Park, 49, with acting credits like “Veep,” “Fresh off the Boat” and as Marvel’s agent Jimmy Woo, found in “Shortcomings” a bridge to his own youth.
“This is the direct connection to when I was in college,” Park said in a Zoom interview. “Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel meant so much to me. I had almost been envisioning it as a movie since the day it came out back in 2007.”
Comical yet serious, “Shortcomings” is adapted by Tomine from his comic and stars Justin H. Min as Ben who seems to be dissatisfied drifting through life.
