Mei Man Ren Sheng
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Colin Goh
Yann Yann Yeo
Richard Low
Alice Lim
Serene Chen
Lim Yu-beng
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Heavily in debt, patriarch Loh Poh Huat can't help but feel bitter irony whenever he has to perform his job as a lawyer's clerk, seizing goods from the homes of credit card debtors. At the end of his career, and frustrated by the gulf between his middle class dreams and his working class reality, he takes his feelings of failure and envy out on his family. So when Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, the Lohs start believing that maybe this windfall will deliver them from their struggles. But something happens which pitches the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself.
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Winner of the Montblanc Award for New Screenwriters at the 2006 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Released in Singapore September 7, 2006
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (New Directors) April 26-May 10, 2007.
Shown at San Sebastian Film Festival (Zabaltegi/New Director) September 21-30, 2006.
color
Dolby Digital
dialogue Mandarin, English and Hokkien
Released in Singapore September 7, 2006