Taxi! Taxi!
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| Directed by | Kelvin Sng |
| Produced by | Chan Pui Yin |
| Written by | Boris Boo Rebecca Leow Chan Pui Yin Kelvin Sng |
| Screenplay by | Boris Boo Lee Chee Tian Violet Lai |
| Based on |
Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver by Cai Mingjie |
| Starring |
Mark Lee Gurmit Singh Jazreel Low Gan Mei Yan Lai Meng Chua Jin Sen (a.k.a. Dr Jia Jia) Royston Ong |
| Music by | Alex Oh |
| Edited by | Yim Mun Chong |
| Distributed by | Golden Village Pictures |
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Running time
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93 minutes |
| Country | Singapore |
| Language | English Chinese Hokkien |
| Budget | S$1 million |
| Box office | S$1.45 million |
Taxi! Taxi! (simplified Chinese: 德士当家; traditional Chinese: 德士當家; pinyin: déshì dāngjiā) is a 2013 Singaporean comedy film based on the 2010 work Diary Of A Taxi Driver by Cai Mingjie, said to be "Singapore's most well-educated taxi-driver". Directed by Kelvin Sng and produced by Chan Pui Yin for SIMF Management, the film stars Mark Lee, Gurmit Singh and YouTube personality Chua Jin Sen, better known by his online handle "Dr. Jia Jia". It is Chua's professional film debut. The film follows two fellow taxi-drivers' (Lee and Singh) quest for self-discovery. Distributed by Golden Village Pictures, the film was commercially released in Singapore on January 3, 2013 and slated for a January 24, 2013 release in Malaysia.
In the prelude of the movie, PhD microbiologist Professor Chua See Kiat (Gurmit Singh) is hanging out on a rooftop when a cab-driver named Ah Tau (Mark Lee) mistook him for attempting suicide. This leads to Ah Tau receiving a fine for illegal parking.
After several attempts to find a new job, Professor Chua See Kiat had no choice but to resort to cab driving. Ah Tau volunteers to help him and became his first passenger. Soon, Ah Tau was then fined again for another illegal parking incident.
When Professor Chua was picking his mother-in-law from the airport, he happened to get into a taxi that was driven by Ah Tau, whose son was also in the taxi. Ah Tau then started talking about Professor Chua's new career as a taxi driver, almost revealing it to his wife and mother-in-law who were not aware of this beforehand. This caused a strain on Ah Tau and Professor Chua's friendship.
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