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Soursweet
Soursweet

Soursweet

5.3/10
May 15, 1988
110 minutes
Mike Newell
Drama Crime

Overview

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.

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Movie Details

Release Date

May 15, 1988

Runtime

110 minutes

Director

Mike Newell

Rating

5.3/10

Production Companies

First Film Company British Screen Productions Film4 Productions

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Soursweet (1988) Trailer

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