Korean-American actor Charles Jang stars as Ming Ding, a Chinese illegal immigrant struggling to make ends meet working as a deliveryman at a take-out restaurant, in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou's indie feature debut Take Out. The film was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the Indie Spirit Awards. "This is as exceptional as microbudget cinema gets," wrote Aaron Hillis in the Village Voice, "[S]ome of the most authentic neorealism this side of De Sica."