‘Rosemead’ Review: Lucy Liu Scores As A Suburban Mom Forced To Confront The Unthinkable – Tribeca Film Festival

‘Rosemead’ Review: Lucy Liu Scores As A Suburban Mom Forced To Confront The Unthinkable – Tribeca Film Festival

The sunny strip-mall mundanity of Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley is the fascinating setting for Eric Lin’s dark directorial debut, the unsettling and not entirely successful story of a widow struggling with her son’s mental illness. Based, very closely, on a series of real-life events that occurred in 2015 and were documented two years later by journalist Frank Shyong in the L.A. Times (be warned: the headline alone is one massive spoi…