Overview
- Bleecker Street released the first trailer and poster on Feb. 18 to kick off the film’s theatrical marketing push.
- The story centers on Chinese-American teen Joan Huang, who undergoes an Ethnos procedure to appear white, with Mckenna Grace portraying her post-transformation.
- The film is slated to open in U.S. theaters on March 13, 2026, and carries an R rating for language, some sexual material, teen drug use, and brief violent/bloody images.
- Coverage characterizes the tone as a high-school comedy blended with graphic body horror, frequently likened to “Mean Girls” meets “The Substance.”
- The SXSW 2025 Narrative Grand Jury Prize winner has early reviews that range from praise to sharp criticism, with Rotten Tomatoes at 86% as of SlashFilm’s report, and features Shirley Chen, Mckenna Grace, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Vivian Wu, Amelie Zilber, and Fang Du.