Adele Lim (born 15 August 1975) is a Malaysian screenwriter, producer, and director. She is best known for being a co-writer on Crazy Rich Asians, the first film by a prominent Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in 1993 and Raya and the Last Dragon in 2021, an animated fantasy adventure inspired by Southeast Asian culture. She also directed and produced the 2023 comedy Joy Ride. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele Lim, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 15, 1975 (51)
- Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
- Writer, producer and director
- 13 on MovieCove · 19 credits in all
What are Adele Lim's films like?
Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 1 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 2
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 0
Steady 0 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 2
Slow burn 0 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Adele Lim's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 13 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Adele Lim's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
19 credits, 13 with a MovieCove page.
Edibles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Joy Ride(2023)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Raya and the Last Dragon(2021)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Crazy Rich Asians(2018)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Dynasty(2017)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows
Lethal Weapon(2016)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Star-Crossed(2014)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Reign(2013)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Missing(2012)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
Life Unexpected(2010)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all shows
Life on Mars(2008)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all shows
Private Practice(2007)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
Pepper Dennis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
One Tree Hill(2003)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows
Las Vegas(2003)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all shows
John Doe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
State of Grace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Follow Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Princess Diaries 3 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 18 titles, 16 of them dated from 2001 to 2024.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2009, New Series.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Adele Lim's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 80th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 81st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th2
Shape of the crowd
12 of their 13 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser12
Reviewers score the dialogue 55/100 and the plot and story 43/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Adele Lim's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Adele Lim work with?
People who share at least 2 of Adele Lim's MovieCove titles; Awkwafina shares the most, 2.
- AwkwafinaShared titles: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Crazy Rich Asians (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Awkwafina
- Gemma ChanShared titles: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Crazy Rich Asians (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Gemma Chan
