Grace Lee is an American-born girl of Korean parents who grew up in Columbia, Mo., and was one of only three Asian girls
in her school. Of the other two, one was also named Grace Lee. This was no crazy coincidence. As "The Grace Lee Project" demonstrates, there are thousands of Grace Lees in America. Now, Lee is common enough to be the Asian equivalent of Smith. But why Grace? And what, if anything, do all these Grace Lees have in common? What does it mean to be a "Grace Lee"? Our filmmaker, the one from Missouri, sets out to answer these questions in this lightweight but watchable documentary. A private investigator discovers there are more than 3,000 Grace Lees nationwide, with heavy concentrations in California and New York, and through her own surveys of hundreds of her like-named sisters, Grace finds patterns.
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