Take Out
“One illegal immigrant, one smuggling debt, one day to pay up.”
An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.
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Cast
80 people
Charles Jang
Ming Ding
Also in
Anora
Jeng-Hua Yu
Young
Tsou Shih-ching
Known for
Tangerine
Isil Bagdadi
Sean Baker
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Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
Wang-Thye Lee
Big Sister
Michael Sergio
Justin Wan
Wei
Jeff Huang
Ma
Shih-Yun Tsou
Collector #1
No other roles listed
Joe Chien
Collector #2
Waley Liu
Ming's Roommate
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Sean Baker Director · Tsou Shih-ching Director
Worldwide gross $70K · Budget $3K · United States release June 6, 2008
Box office
Budget
$3,000
Worldwide gross
$69,816
Gross vs. budget
23.3×
Production
Cre Film
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese · English · Spanish
Release dates
United States · January 18, 2004
Premiere · Slamdance Film Festival
United States · June 6, 2008
Limited theatrical
United States · September 1, 2009
Physical · DVD
France
September 7, 2024 · Premiere · Deauville Film Festival
October 23, 2024 · Theatrical
Taiwan
June 28, 2009 · Premiere · Taipei Film Festival
July 8, 2026 · Theatrical
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