Stunt Woman
1996, NR.
Directed by Ann Hui, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Michelle Yeoh, Sammo Hung.

Part of Dobie’s six-week-long series of midnight movies celebrating kung-fu king and queen Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh, Stunt Woman is Michelle Yeoh’s all the way. The story is divided into three parts. The first details the character’s professional life as a stunt woman who rises to become a director, the second part shows her as a woman in love, and the third puts her in the middle of triad activity.

This article appears in February 2 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.