Tonight Nobody Goes Home 1996 ‘今天不回家’ Directed by Sylvia Chang
The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.
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Sylvia Chang's domestic comic melodrama grows more expansive, building on the Lunar New Year-lite approach of Sisters of the World Unite to tell a multi-generational story of love. The dad from Eat Drink Man Woman (Lung Sihung) plays a horny dentist who has an affair with the woman who runs his granddaughter's preschool. His daughter, Rene Liu, is a bank teller who is wavering in her decision to marry Jordan Chan, an insurance salesman with a sideline as an extra in action movies (he gets killed many times). Lung's son, Winston Chao, is a degenerate gambler and club owner who keeps losing money, especially when his club's star gigolo (Alex To), runs off with his mom (Gua Ah-lei), on her…
Multigeneration family comedy on love and waywardness. Crowd pleasing by design, and this one’s-a-crowd was pleased enough.
Sylvia Chang's domestic comic melodrama grows more expansive, building on the Lunar New Year-lite approach of Sisters of the World Unite to tell a multi-generational story of love. The dad from Eat Drink Man Woman (Lung Sihung) plays a horny dentist who has an affair with the woman who runs his granddaughter's preschool. His daughter, Rene Liu, is a bank teller who is wavering in her decision to marry Jordan Chan, an insurance salesman with a sideline as an extra in action movies (he gets killed many times). Lung's son, Winston Chao, is a degenerate gambler and club owner who keeps losing money, especially when his club's star gigolo (Alex To), runs off with his mom (Gua Ah-lei), on her…
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