It's a Great, Great World
| It's a Great, Great World 大世界 |
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| Directed by | Kelvin Tong |
| Produced by | Kat Goh Hui Hui Sock Leng Ling Leon Tong |
| Written by | Kelvin Tong Ken Kwek Marcus Chin |
| Screenplay by | Kelvin Tong |
| Starring | See Cast |
| Music by | Alex Oh Joe Ng |
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| Distributed by | Golden Village Pictures |
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91 minutes |
| Country | Singapore Malaysia |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese, Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Hainanese, Hakka and other Chinese dialects |
It's a Great, Great World (Chinese: 大世界; pinyin: dà shì jiè) is a Singapore film directed by Kelvin Tong. It is set in the Great World Amusement Park and was released in Singapore cinemas on 27 January 2011. The film features an ensemble cast of local singers, established MediaCorp artistes, a number of celebrities from Hong Kong and Taiwan and getai group "Babes in the City". A noted feature of the film is the heavy use of common Chinese dialects and many actors had dialogues in dialects they were not familiar with.
It's A Great Great World is set in Singapore's legendary amusement park named Great World, which was also known to locals by its Hokkien name 'Tua Seh Kai'. Spanning from the 1940s to the present day, the film presents four tales centred on attractions within these once famous walls.
At present time, Ah Min finds four old pictures in her mother's photography studio and seeks out her mother's old friend Goh Ah Beng, who tells her the stories behind these photographs. These four stories includes:
Interwoven into the film are stories of a multitude of characters that lived, worked, played, sang danced and even fell in love in Great World.
There are two variety shows that relate to the movie. The first show was "Amazing Great World" (精彩大世界) which was broadcast on 24 January 2011 on MediaCorp Channel U and another was "Great World Once More" (情迷大世界)which was broadcast on 27 January 2011 on MediaCorp Channel 8.
As at 21 February 2011, the movie has earned more than S$2 million at the Singapore box office and attained viewership of 250, 000.
The movie was telecast on Mei Ah Movies Channel in late 2011. In 2013, Channel 8 broadcast the movie as a Lunar New Year Day 1 movie with dubbing. Chinese dialects were dubbed except for Aunty Lucy's Shanghainese dialect.
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