I'm the One That I Want

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = I'm The One That I Want | image = | caption = | director = Lionel Coleman | producer = Lorene Machado | writer = Margaret Cho | narrator = | starring = Margaret Cho | music = Frankii Elliott | cinematography = Lionel Coleman | editing = Robyn T. Migel | distributor = Cho Taussig Productions / Vagrant Films | released = {{Film date|2000|8|4}} | runtime = 96 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}

'''''I'm The One That I Want''''' is a concert movie released in 2000. The film captures a live performance of a one-woman show of stand-up comedy, featuring actress and comedian Margaret Cho.<ref name=N/>

== Premise == The film combines elements of storytelling and stand-up. It showcases Cho's unique style of sexually blunt monologue performance. The primary focus of the material is on Cho's ascension into stardom and her struggles with weight, drug addiction and sexual promiscuity. Cho also addresses her failed sitcom ''All-American Girl'', racism, homophobia and other challenges.

== Production notes == The performance was filmed at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on November 13, 1999. The movie was almost universally praised by critics, and it garnered favorable comparisons to the work of comedians like Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

== Critical reception == ''The New York Times'' wrote "How funny is "I'm the One That I Want?" Several times while watching the movie, which opens today at the Quad Cinema, I laughed until the tears were running down my face."<ref name=N>{{cite web|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 4, 2000|title='I'm the One That I Want': Beyond Asian Stereotypes, This Comic Settles Scores|authorlink=Stephen Holden|author=Holden, Stephen|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/080400want-film-review.html}}</ref>

== Book, CD, DVD and VHS == A book of the same name was also released, as well as a compact disc. The CD is a live audio recording of the same performance at the Warfield Theater. There is also a CD version of the book available, and it is read by Cho. The concert film was released on DVD and VHS on October 9, 2001, by Winstar Home Video.<ref>{{cite web|author=Holly J. Wagner|url=http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/product_article.cfm?article_id=1694|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010911012857/http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/product_article.cfm?article_id=1694|title=Cho's the One Winstar Wants|website=hive4media.com|archive-date=September 11, 2001|date=August 31, 2001|access-date=September 7, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0251739}}

Category:2000 films Category:2000 comedy films Category:Films about Korean Americans Category:Comedy films about Asian Americans Category:Margaret Cho albums Category:Asian-American LGBTQ-related films Category:2000 English-language films Category:2000 American films Category:2000 LGBTQ-related films Category:LGBTQ-related comedy films