I Leave it Up to You

A gay Korean American man wakes up from a coma and reckons with unresolved family issues in this perceptive story of arrested development from Chong (Flux). Jack Jr., the 30-year-old narrator, has no recollection of the car accident that put him in the hospital two years earlier, and his family is silent about the whereabouts of his fiancé, Ren. Told that he’s lost his copywriting job along with his Manhattan apartment, he reluctantly moves back in with his parents in Fort Lee, N.J., the hometown he fled at 18 after refusing to take over the family sushi restaurant. Now, with nothing else to do and heartbroken to learn Ren has married someone else, he starts pitching in at the restaurant. His parents remain reticent, however, preferring to act like he’d never left. Just as he begins to settle back into his old life, he starts a new romance. Torn once again between forging a new path and meeting his family’s expectations, he realizes he’s never really matured. Chong expertly captures the family’s complicated dynamics and ratchets up the tension as they finally break the silence about the past. It’s a satisfying drama. Agent: Danielle Bukowski, Sterling Lord Literistic. (Mar.)