Easter Sunday

Joe Valencia is a stand-up comedian and actor whose career has stalled, and his busy schedule has kept him from spending much time with his son, Junior. Hoping to reconnect, Joe takes Junior to Daly City for an Easter gathering with his large Filipino-American family. The visit does not go as peacefully as he imagined: the relatives are loud and quarrelsome, and Joe also has to deal with a gangster who is after his cousin. The film is a comedy drawn from the life experiences of stand-up performer Jo Koy, who plays Joe.

Easter Sunday was directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, whose earlier features include Super Troopers, Club Dread, The Dukes of Hazzard, Beerfest, The Babymakers and Super Troopers 2; it sits between that sequel and Super Troopers 3 in his filmography. Kate Angelo and Ken Cheng wrote the screenplay, and the cast includes Brandon Wardell as Junior, Lydia Gaston as Susan Valencia, Eugene Cordero as Eugene Valencia, Eva Noblezada as Tala and Asif Ali as Dev Deluxe, among 31 credited cast members and 40 credited crew.

Released in August 2022, the film runs 96 minutes and was made for about 17 million dollars, earning roughly 13 million dollars worldwide. It rates 5.3 out of 10 on IMDb from around 3,200 votes and 5.7 out of 10 on TMDB from about 50 votes, indicating modest audience approval.