In director Tom Lin’s Worth the Wait, “a group of Asian-American strangers’ lives fatefully intertwine as they navigate budding love, confront profound loss and encounter old flames.”
Written by Maggie Hartmans, Dan Mark and Rachel Tan, this begins with Kai (Ross Butler) grabbing an Uber when he suddenly has Nathan (Osric Chau), the ready to drop Teresa (Karena Ka-Yan Lam) and Teresa’s mother Mary (Kheng Hua Tan) all jump into his ride, diverting it to the hospital where he meets and falls in love with a nurse — or ER doctor, the movie is never sure — by the name of Leah (Lana Condor), who believes that life has a way of “connecting everything and everyone in ways we don’t even see.”
Along the way, we also learn about the romantic lives of Blake (Ricky He) and Riley (Ali Fumiko Whitney) — she’s the niece of the rideshare diver Curtis (Sung Kang) — as well as an actress, Amanda (Elodie Yung), who decides to take another chance with an old lover, Scott (Andrew Koji). Can these people all find love and make their stories work, no matter what the fates of life throw their way?
Set in Seattle but filmed in British Columbia, this glossy romcom feels classy for a Tubi Original. There are times when it tries to have tragedy right next to comedy, which doesn’t always feel right, but if you’re looking for a simple film that won’t put too many demands on you while you’re entertained, you could do worse.
You can watch this on Tubi.