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今天不回家 (1996)
Tonight Nobody Goes Home


Reviewed by: shelly
Date: 12/09/1999

A funny, lightweight comedy from Sylvia Chang. The cast is thehighlight here: perhaps better than the material deserves. Winston Chao is very dashing (as usual) as a greedy materialist (he thinks electronic hula-hoop dancers are just the thing to bring the crowds into his nightclub); Rene Liu is very cute (as usual) as a bank teller worried about her engagement to a totally goofy Jordan Chan; Alex To is surprisingly convincing as a male gigolo (he gets to sing two horrible, corny songs: why do we deserve such punishment?). Sihung Lung plays a restless 60-year old dentist for broad comedy (showing a different side from his starring roles in Ang Lee's films); Yang Kwei-mei (who was brilliant in "Vive l'amour) has fun as the youthful kindergarten owner who catches his roving eye. 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 leaves her. Less sentimental than Chang's "I Want to Go On Living", but it still doesn't go much deeper than a sitcom. Run-of-the mill styling, except for some weird editing tricks which didn't seem totally necessary. A fine snack, but not very filling.