Phua Chu Kang The Movie
| Phua Chu Kang The Movie | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Boris Boo |
| Produced by | Melvin Ang |
| Written by | Ong Su Mann |
| Starring |
Gurmit Singh Irene Ang Henry Thia Neo Swee Lin Lim Kay Siu |
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Production
company |
Grand Brilliance
mm2 Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Golden Village |
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Release date
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12 August 2010 (Singapore) 26 August 2010 (Malaysia) |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | Malaysia Singapore |
| Language | English |
| Budget | S$1 million |
| Box office | US$691,300 |
Phua Chu Kang The Movie is a Malaysian-Singaporean comedy film. The film was released in Singapore on 12 August 2010 and Malaysia on 26 August 2010.
Ah Ma pays a visit to Phua Chu Kang and Rosie Phua, who are now based in Malaysia. Almost as soon as she arrives, she disappears, only to resurface mysteriously tending to an elderly man at a nursing home run by Lim Lau Pek, where residents have been dying one by one. Mistakenly, Lim believes Phua Chu Kang is there to bid for a renovation job. Phua Chu Kang agrees to the job only after Ah Ma calls in his arch-nemesis, Frankie Foo, to bid for the job together with him, both in the hope of being awarded a lucrative job in the future. While Phua Chu Kang is busy with construction, he misses his anniversary dinner with Rosie Phua, who is wined and dined by Lim instead. At his luxurious home, Lim reveals that he has been siphoning the majority of funds from phone-in donations to the nursing home for his personal use. Shocked and guilty, Rosie Phua attempts to convince Phua Chu Kang to stop work to no avail. Meanwhile, Ah Ma reveals that the elderly man she has been looking after is Phua Chu Kang's grandfather, Ah Kong, who abandoned Phua Chu Kang in the belief that he would bring the family bad luck. Rosie Phua joins forces with Ah Kong and Frankie Foo, who has a crush on her, to find Lim's laptop in order to bring him to justice. The trio are caught in action by Lim and his thugs, who in turn are apprehended by the police that Phua Chu Kang, who pretended to continue to work for Lim, called in. Phua Chu Kang is reunited with Ah Kong, only to have Lim escape the clutches of the police before being caught by King Kong, who has returned from a date with the nursing home worker Angel. Phua Chu Kang's reunion with Ah Kong is cut short when Ah Kong passes away, after accepting Phua Chu Kang to his family.
As early as 2000, the idea of a Phua Chu Kang movie had already been floated. However, Gurmit Singh and team felt that they had to wait for a script that combined Phua's trademark Singlish and physical humour with heartfelt drama and added new characters so that audiences would be willing to pay for it.
For his double role as Ah Kong, Gurmit Singh had to spend two hours in make-up.
This was actress Angie Seow's debut movie role.
The movie was mostly filmed at Sri Seronok Retirement Village in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Scriptwriter Ong Su Mann refused to watch the movie after being "dismayed" by the number of lines in its two-minute trailer that he didn't write. Instead of attending the premiere, he sent his mother and sister, who slept through most of it.
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