Margaret Cho

Total Credits at Criticker: 40 (Actor), 4 (Writer)
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I'm The One That I Want (2000) - TV Special
November, 1999, Margaret Cho is home in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. Cho structures her monologue loosely on her professional life's trajectory: doing stand-up, cast in an ABC-TV sitcom, losing 30 pounds in two weeks for the part, the show's cancellation, a descent into booze, pills, and self-loathing, and a resurrection into her own voice, her own shape, and being the one she wants... (imdb)
The incomparable Margaret Cho roars back onto the screen with her latest concert, The Assassin Tour, recorded live in May of 2005 at the Warner Theater in Washington D.C. (Regent Releasing)
Margaret Cho's hilarious follow-up to her hit comedy "I'm the One That I Want." (Wellspring)
Best friends Ronnie and Dave struggle to run a Manhattan tavern and find their self-respect. (Redeemable Features)
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. (imdb)
Celeste (Margaret Cho) and Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels) escape their Midwest hometown for New York, and take on their high-school nemeses - the dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage - while discovering that true beauty lies within. (imdb)
A disgraced former air traffic controller is called back into service when the airport's traffic control system malfunctions. (imdb)
For Sarah Wilder making a movie in Hollywood looked easy. With the guidance of her has been screenwriter uncle this sexy aspiring filmmaker embarks on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she encounters crazy studio executives insane producers and a gangster who agrees to finance her film for a price. In an effort to find the universal truth about movies sex and life Sarah comes across a cast of zany characters and to her surprise discovers that NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING! (Amazon)
In this bittersweet comedy drama, a man nearing the end of his life seeks closure with his family and friends, and he confronts the issues of the right to die. Nick Stark is a successful architect who is openly gay. He was involved in a committed relationship with Brandon Theis, a television director, until Nick discovered that he's HIV-positive. (allmovie.com)
Margaret Cho: Beautiful (2009) - TV Special
Learning to love her luscious self over the past forty years, comedian Margaret Cho realized that the eye of the beholder doesn't hold all the power when it comes to beauty. Beautiful explores the good, bad, and downright ugly in beauty, and the unattractive politicians and marketers who shape our world. (imdb)
Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black family, are trying to adapt to their mostly black neighbourhood of South Central. (imdb)
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. (imdb)
Explores the existence and accuracy of stereotypes about the speech patterns of gay men, and the ways in which one's degree of conformity to the stereotype can contribute to internalized homophobia. (en.wikipedia.org)
Barry Crimmins is pissed. His hellfire brand of comedy has rained verbal lightning bolts on American audiences and politicians for decades, yet you've probably never heard of him. But once you've experienced Bobcat Goldthwait's brilliant character portrait of him and heard Crimmins's secret, you will never forget him. (imdb)
A New York teacher who moves to small town Texas, is fired for being gay, and returns disguised as a mean lady to get revenge on the nasty town. (imdb)
Drop Dead Diva (2009) - TV Series
A vapid aspiring model killed in a car crash gets brought back to life as an intelligent, overweight lawyer, hoping to find the meaning of inner beauty. (imdb)
THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN celebrates one of the world's most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to re-claim their lives. (imdb)
Arliss goes to a coffee house to meet Jasmine on a blind date, but she's not quite what she seems. (imdb)
Set in a world where mystical creatures live side by side with humans. A human cop is forced to work with an Orc to find a weapon everyone is prepared to kill for.
All-American Girl (1994) - TV Series
Based around the stand-up routines of comedian Margaret Cho, this series looked at the culture clashes that occured between a traditional Korean mother and her fully Americanized daughter. Mom just wants Margaret to marry 'respectable' men: doctors, lawyers, scientists (always Korean), while her daughter is more interested in white bikers, musicians, and any other type that her mother is bound to hate. Through all of this, Dad knows better than to interfere, and just keeps out of the fray.
After being abandoned at the altar, Jason courts the girl of his dreams in cyberspace. When she arrives in LA for their wedding, she turns out to be completely different than expected. (imdb)
Visible: Out on Television (2020) - TV Mini-Series
The importance of TV as a medium that has shaped the American conscience, and how the LGBTQ movement influenced what we watch on TV. (imdb)
Trixie Mattel: Skinny Legend (2019) - TV Special
Trixie Mattel does her live variety show stand-up thing on stage and it's recorded.
A girl named Fei Fei builds and flies a rocket ship to meet the moon goddess, Chang'e. (wikipedia.org)
After years of putting her career first, a stand-up comic meets a guy who seems perfect: smart, nice, successful and possibly too good to be true. (imdb)
- The Simple Life (2021) - Season 2
- Home (2021) - Season 2
Avery, a teenager with a tendency towards perfectionism, enlists her friend Larson to help her prepare for her first time with her long-distance boyfriend. (imdb)
A pair of best friends set out to have a legendary week-long summer vacation with the help of cheap rosé and a group of eclectic friends. (imdb)
Koreatown Ghost Story (2021) - Short Film
Hannah, a young painter who works by day at a hardware store, visits the venerable Mrs. Moon to inquire about the contents of a puzzle box and is quickly whisked to a massage table and poked with needles. (366weirdmovies.com)
Follows a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, etc. (imdb)
In this teen rom-com, high school senior Mandy Yang and her best friend Ben navigate prom season amidst extravagant 80s-themed Promposals. Focused on her dream of attending Harvard, Mandy is waitlisted and decides to seek help from her nemesis, popular jock Graham Lansing, whose senator father is a Harvard alum. As Mandy tutors Graham, she discovers he's more complex than she initially believed and starts to question if there's more to life than just Harvard.
The new kid at school must bond with his new classmates for a senior project in order to graduate, but will they find out the secret he's hiding. (imdb)
Maxine (2023) - Short Film
Allie hides her girlfriend from her Chinese American family, and she meets the spirit of a long-lost aunt who was queer when she was alive. They discover they share many feelings about struggling to belong within their family's legacy. (imdb)
The Improv: 60 and Still Standing (2023) - TV Special
Ten top comics hit the stage to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Improv comedy club in this special featuring archival footage of iconic performers. (rottentomatoes.com)