The first American feature to be shot in the People's Republic of China, A Great Wall is both charming and refreshingly irreverent in observing the cross-cultural conflicts of Chinese Americans and Chinese. Writer-director Peter Wang portrays a Chinese-born American, Leo Fang, happily esconced in the suburban California lifestyle of a computer executive until he loses a promotion based on his race. As an act of intuitive self-preservation, Fang takes off for Beijing with his American-born wife (Sharon Iwai) and teenage son (Kelvin Han Yee), for whom being Chinese seems no hindrance to acting like a cross between Elvis Presley and Joe Namath. At the Beijing home of Leo's sister and her family, the Americans enjoy the Chinese ingenuousness about American life-while the Chinese, likewise, revel in the Americans' profound naiveté about life itself. A Great Wall marks Peter Wang's debut as a dramatic film director. A founding member of the Asian Living Theatre in San Francisco, his film roles have included the wacky chef in Wayne Wang's Chan Is Missing and the philosophical drama coach in Allen Fong's Ah Ying, which he also co-wrote.