Shortcomings Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.

Comedy Adaptation Comic Book

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Shortcomings.

• J
  Justin H. Min

  Detained , The Greatest Hits

• S
  Sherry Cola

  Joy Ride, Sick Girl

• A
  Ally Maki

  Dream Productions (limited series), Home Sweet Home Alone

• T
  Tavi Gevinson

  Enough Said, Person to Person

• D
  Debby Ryan

  Every Day, Life of the Party

• S
  Sonoya Mizuno

  Civil War, La La Land

• T
  Timothy Simons

  Nobody Wants This (series), The Interview

• J
  Jacob Batalon

  Novocaine, Lift

Crew Behind the Film

The Shortcomings behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

Director

Randall Park

Screenwriters

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Producers

Jennifer Berman
Howard Cohen
Ryan Paine
Eric d’Arbeloff

Additional Information

All Trailers

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Production Details

What we know about the Shortcomings movie production.

Key Facts

• Based on the graphic novel Shortcomings by famed cartoonist Adrian Tomine.

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