Reviewed by: Stephe Date: 01/27/2011 Father Takes a Bride stars the same main three actors as in Her Tender Heart -- the doe-eyed Lucilla Yu Ming, the fatherly Wang Yin, and the tall, regal Wang Lai -- but in place of Zhang Yang, we have Betty Loh Tih's brother Kelly Lai Chen. And as it turns out, Lucilla and Kelly make a perfect couple: their looks match each other handsomely, and they play off each convincingly (unlike Kelly's match with Kitty Ting Hao in Dreams Come True). The tone of this film is quite different from that of Her Tender Heart. Two couples -- one being Lucilla and Kelly, the other being Lucilla's father Wang Yin and Wang Lai -- are threatened by jealousy on the part of Lucilla's two younger brothers, aged 8 and 9, who make a fuss about their dead mother and how marriage by their father would disrespect her memory, while marriage by their sister would leave them all alone in life. The way things play out in this Eileen Chang scripted film is rather ingenious, but until then, you fear for nearly everyone's happiness at one point or another. I was surprised not to care all that much for Lucilla's character, here. I preferred her work in Her Tender Heart and in Sun, Moon and Star. Reviewer Score: 6