[05/15/26 - 07:30 AM] Amy Wang's Breakout Film "Slanted" Now Streaming on Paramount+ The buzzy coming-of-age satire follows a Chinese-American teen willing to go to shocking lengths to become prom queen - offering a razor-sharp take on identity, belonging and the price of chasing perfection.
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AMY WANG'S BREAKOUT FILM "SLANTED" NOW STREAMING ON PARAMOUNT+
Starring Shirley Chen and McKenna Grace, the provocative coming-of-age satire takes a sharp look at beauty, identity, and the price of fitting in.
May 15, 2026 - What would you change to fit in? In Amy Wang's bold and provocative debut Slanted, the answer is everything. Arriving today, May 15, exclusively on Paramount+, the buzzy coming-of-age satire follows a Chinese-American teen willing to go to shocking lengths to become prom queen - offering a razor-sharp take on identity, belonging and the price of chasing perfection.
· Written, produced and directed by visionary screenwriter Amy Wang (Brothers Sun, From Scratch), Slanted focuses on Chinese-American teenager Joan Huang, who desperately dreams of being crowned prom queen. Fearing the only way to win is to look like past prom queens, Huang undergoes an experimental cosmetic procedure that changes patients' ethnicity, turning them white, but at great cost.
· Slanted stars Shirley Chen (Beast Beast, Dìdi) as Joan Huang and McKenna Grace (Regretting You, Sunrise on the Reaping, Scream 7) as Joan's caucasian alter ego, Jo Hunt. Additional cast members include Vivian Wu (The Joy Luck Club, Away, The Afterparty), Fang Du (The Haves and the Have Nots, Madam Secretary), Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Never Have I Ever, Freakier Friday) and Amelie Zilber (Emily in Paris, Grown-ish).
· Upon its release, Slanted received praise from a variety of premier publications. Variety, hailed the film as "undeniably daring," while The Los Angeles Times praised Wang's use of her lived experience growing up Chinese-Australian, proclaiming "Slanted nails the micr-aggressions, body dysmorphia and desire to belong that can make coming of age while being 'other' its own perplexing kind of hell." The film also won the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative Feature Competition at the SXSW 2025 Film & TV Festival.
· "As an immigrant, I've always been aware that I looked different. Slanted examines the cost of chasing acceptance, and what it means to abandon yourself in the process. Is belonging worth losing who you are for a system that was never built to value you? I can't wait for Slanted to debut on Paramount+ and reach millions of people across America," said Amy Wang, writer-director of Slanted.
· Slanted is produced by FOX Entertainment Studios' Tideline and Mountain Top Pictures with producers including Mark Ankner for Mountain Top, Trevor Wall, Adel "Future" Nur and Wang. Executive producers include FOX Entertainment Studios' Hannah Pillemer and Fernando Szew. Slanted is distributed worldwide by FOX Entertainment Global.
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