ATM: Er Rak Error | |
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ATM เออรัก เออเร่อ | |
Directed by | Mez Tharatorn |
Produced by |
Jira Maligool Chenchonnee Soonthornsaratul Suvimon Techasupinun Vanridee Pongsittisak |
Screenplay by |
Aummaraporn Phandintong Mez Tharatorn |
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Music by | Vichaya Vatanasapt |
Edited by | Thammarat Sumetsupachok |
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Distributed by | Vicol Entertainment |
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123 minutes |
Country | Thailand |
Language | Thai |
Box office | ฿152.5 million |
Jira Maligool Chenchonnee Soonthornsaratul Suvimon Techasupinun
Aummaraporn Phandintong
ATM: Er Rak Error (retitled later to ATM) is a 2012 Thai language romantic comedy film that became one of Thailand's all-time top-grossing films shortly after its release.
In a bank that forbids fraternization lest one person in the couple be forced out, Sua (Chantavit Dhanasevi) and Jib (Preechaya Pongthananikorn), two career-bound overachievers, have nevertheless been discreetly dating for 5 years. Frustrated with having to keep their relationship hidden, Sua and Jib decide to get married. However, neither are willing to resign from their jobs.
One day, a software error in one of the bank's ATMs in Chonburi causes it to malfunction, causing it to double the money it withdraws. Through two poor men, Pued (Thawat Pornrattanaprasert) and Paed (Chalermpol Tikumporntheerawong), word spreads quickly and the ATM draws a large crowd of ecstatic football spectators. ฿130,000 is withdrawn before the machine is shut down.
Jib and Sua make a bet that whoever recovers the money withdrawn from the ATM can remain employed, while the other must resign. Both go to extreme lengths to win. Jib tries to recover the money from the ones that withdrawn thru reasoning, while Sua uses more unorthodox strategies.
Pued used his ATM withdrawal to buy a motorcycle, while Paed used it to buy a golden tooth as well as a truck. Sua soon teams up with them in his attempt to recover the withdrawn money, unaware that they are two of the people who received double cash from the faulty ATM. Meanwhile, Jib finds that one of the people who benefited from the ATM, Madam Aummara (Puttachart Pongsuchart), had used the money to buy new machines for her laundry shop. Madam Aummara refuses to tell Jib anything. Later Sua meets Aummara's daughter, Gob (Sananthachat Thanapatpisal), who soon falls in love with him. Sua is unaware that she is actually Pued's girlfriend, and Pued is heartbroken when he learns of Gob's new infatuation.
Both Sua and Jib learn that Pued and Paed were two of the people that withdrew cash from the malfunctioning ATM, and convince them to confess. They also discover that the branch manager Pakorn Kulariboriboon (Pongkool Suebsung) had also withdrawn from the ATM, and force him to confess as well.
Sua learns that one of the people who withdrew from the ATM is Sergeant Sam (Anna Chuancheun), the same police officer who confronted him when his company car was towed, and also the owner of a crocodile that had previously chased Sua from a farm. After Sua buys a police costume and fake guns to attack Sam, he is jailed for posing as a policeman.