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WATCH: First look at Jo Koy's film 'Easter Sunday'

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<p>The official trailer for the Steven Spielberg-produced movie &quot;Easter Sunday&quot; about a Filipino-American family starring comedian Jo Koy has been released.</p><p>The almost three-minute video is now uploaded on the official YouTube page of Universal Pictures.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YIixb42aJPg?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>In the film, Jo Koy stars as a man returning home for an Easter celebration &quot;with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to his Filipino-American community.&quot;</p><p>In an <a href="https://ew.com/movies/jo-koy-easter-sunday-comedy-movie-first-look/?fbclid=IwAR07SRNUyEhen5BjlTm0gygfk4zf-3atEK3JFYl8YLoF3zbWzdKjSGkH0lY">article published by Entertainment Weekly</a>, Jo Koy expressed his excitement as he shared some details about the film and how Spielberg became a producer of &quot;Easter Sunday.&quot;</p><p>&quot;He just loved the stories about my mom and our relationship… He just enjoyed that dynamic, and he enjoyed the storytelling, and he was like, &#x27;I want to make this story a reality.&#x27; And it&#x27;s not about making fun of Filipinos. It&#x27;s about a family first that just happens to be Filipino. And you&#x27;re going to relate to it. No matter what ethnicity you are, a mom is a mom. They all do the same mom stuff,&quot; Jo Koy told the magazine.</p><p>The movie features an all-star cast that includes Jimmy O. Yang, Tia Carrere, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Lydia Gaston, Asif Ali, Rodney To, Eugene Cordero, Jay Chandrasekhar, Tiffany Haddish and Lou Diamond Phillips.<br/> <br/>From DreamWorks Pictures, &quot;Easter Sunday&quot; is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar (&quot;Super Troopers,&quot; &quot;The Dukes of Hazzard&quot;) and written by Ken Cheng. </p>

The official trailer for the Steven Spielberg-produced movie 'Easter Sunday' about a Filipino-American family starring comedian Jo Koy has been released.