Help!!! (2000)
"Lat sau wui cheun" (original title)

A trio of idealistic young doctors take on a corrupt, ineffective hospital management more interested in saving dollars than lives. Sub-plots crop up in the form of a love triangle, an ... See full summary »

Directors:

Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai

Writers:

Ka-Fai Wai, Nai-Hoi Yau,

Stars:

Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Cecilia Cheung

Cast

Credited cast:
Ekin Cheng	...	Joe
Jordan Chan	...	Jim
Cecilia Cheung	...	Yan
Ho-Yin Wong
Shiu Hung Hui
Suet Lam
Man-Wai Wong	...	(as Bonnie Wong)
Kau Lam
Emma Ong
Yvonne Ong
Baby Lau
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yuet-Ming Chiu
Wah Wo Wong	...	Car accident patient

Storyline

A trio of idealistic young doctors take on a corrupt, ineffective hospital management more interested in saving dollars than lives. Sub-plots crop up in the form of a love triangle, an electrical blackout, and a major car accident.

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Plot Keywords:

hospital | medical | doctor patient relationship | ignorance | defibrillation | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Release Date:

11 August 2000 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Help!!!

Company Credits

Production Co:

China Star Entertainment, Milky Way Image Company, One Hundred Years of Film Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This movie was written, shot, edited and released within only 30 days, making it the fastest ever produced major release in Hong Kong film history.

User Reviews

Help us all...

It looks like 2000 isn't turning out to be the year for Johnny To and Milky Way. Following the debacle that is "Needing You...," the company brings us the strange hospital farce, "Help!!!" Again, like "Needing..." it is admirable that To & Wai Ka Fai have elected to tackle another genre. This one is slightly more successful, but it's general premise never quite takes shape amidst a lot of chaotic elements. Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, and Cecilia Cheung star as a group of determined doctors who work at a hospital where the employees slack off and do nothing to help their patients. This, of course, leads up to some interesting slapstick, incl. a great sequence where a deceased patient's ghost reappears to haunt the physicians. A parody of the opening title sequence of "ER" is also quite successful as well as a 70's disaster movie climax with an overturned bus & a person caught between bamboo sticks (reminiscent of a certain scene in Spielberg's "The Lost World"). Unfortunately, that's about all that really works here and the game cast is left stranded with a couple of disconnected plot threads. Will Johnny To eventually return to the gangster/cop dramas that are his forte? Stay tuned.