Director(s): Domee Shi
Date Released: 2018
Theatrically Released Alongside: The Incredibles 2
Bao is an interesting short story about a lonely woman whose cooked bao dumpling comes to life. The woman raises the dumpling as it grows from a jolly child to a moody teenager to an ungrateful adult. It turns out the situation is all an allegory for the woman’s actual son, who returns home to “apologize” and make amends with his mother.
