Patrick Wang

Writing

Patrick Wang

Patrick Wang is an American writer, economist, director, and actor. His first feature film, the acclaimed hit indie film In the Family, was released in 2011. He later directed the acclaimed two-part indie film A Bread Factory in 2018.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

A. Rimbaud poster
NR

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

A. Rimbaud

2026

A. Rimbaud poster
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Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

A. Rimbaud

2026

A. Rimbaud poster
NR

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

A. Rimbaud

2026

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While poster
6.6

The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater, with the town invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While

2018

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While poster
6.6

The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater, with the town invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While

2018

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While poster
6.6

The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater, with the town invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While

2018

A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold poster
6.7

After 40 years of running their community arts space The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a pair of celebrity performance artists from China come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street, catapulting big changes in their small town.

A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold

2018

A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold poster
6.7

After 40 years of running their community arts space The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a pair of celebrity performance artists from China come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street, catapulting big changes in their small town.

A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold

2018

A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold poster
6.7

After 40 years of running their community arts space The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a pair of celebrity performance artists from China come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street, catapulting big changes in their small town.

A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold

2018

The Grief of Others poster
6.6

The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.

The Grief of Others

2015

The Grief of Others poster
6.6

The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.

The Grief of Others

2015

In the Family poster
6.7

In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six year old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. And a good life it is. When Cody dies suddenly in a car accident, Joey and Chip struggle to find their footing again. Just as they begin to, Cody's will reveals that he named his sister as Chip's guardian. The years of Joey's acceptance into the family unravel as Chip is taken away from him. In his now solitary home life, Joey searches for a solution. The law is not on his side, but friends are. Armed with their comfort and inspired by memories of Cody, Joey finds a path to peace with the family and closer to his son.

In the Family

2011

In the Family poster
6.7

In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six year old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. And a good life it is. When Cody dies suddenly in a car accident, Joey and Chip struggle to find their footing again. Just as they begin to, Cody's will reveals that he named his sister as Chip's guardian. The years of Joey's acceptance into the family unravel as Chip is taken away from him. In his now solitary home life, Joey searches for a solution. The law is not on his side, but friends are. Armed with their comfort and inspired by memories of Cody, Joey finds a path to peace with the family and closer to his son.

In the Family

2011

In the Family poster
6.7

In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six year old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. And a good life it is. When Cody dies suddenly in a car accident, Joey and Chip struggle to find their footing again. Just as they begin to, Cody's will reveals that he named his sister as Chip's guardian. The years of Joey's acceptance into the family unravel as Chip is taken away from him. In his now solitary home life, Joey searches for a solution. The law is not on his side, but friends are. Armed with their comfort and inspired by memories of Cody, Joey finds a path to peace with the family and closer to his son.

In the Family

2011

The Thinking Molecules of Titan poster
7.0

Follows a group of scientists and their friends trying to understand a pattern they have found in a signal coming from Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. Based on a short story by Roger Ebert.

The Thinking Molecules of Titan

2014