A woman with a difficult temper, Grandma Wong pockets money from the mafia. "Lucky Grandma" is a more accurate translation of the name, because the bully that the old woman hires as her bodyguard is clearly not in the spotlight.
The film is more perceived as Asian than made in USA, aided by the atmosphere of New York's Chinatown, in which Mrs. Wong looks almost the soul of this place, unlike her younger Americanized relatives, and the same semi-herbivorous bodyguard, with horror exclaiming: "You made me hurt other people!" To which he receives the wise answer of the old woman: "This is fate!" - they say, you are in fact a bandit who refused honest work - and you are building a graduate of the police academy here. In general, no matter how doubtful the grandmother may act, but still she wins against the background of other characters with her perseverance in achieving success: 40 years of work for pennies and life is already running out - well, she deserved a few decent purchases to at least get a taste of what this people of your America dopes.