Cheung Gong 7 hou (2008)

Director:

Stephen Chow

Writers:

Stephen Chow (written by) &
Vincent Kok (written by) ...

Release Date:

30 January 2008 (China)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

It's out of this world.

Plot:

A poor Chinese laborer learns important lessons after his son gets a strange new toy. |

Plot Keywords:

Cartoon Reality Crossover | Construction Worker | Fall From Height | Brought Back To Life | School

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Stephen Chow	...	Ti
Jiao Xu	...	Dicky
Lei Huang	...	Johnny
Kitty Zhang Yuqi	...	Miss Yuen (as Kitty Zhang)
Chi Chung Lam	...	Boss (as Tze Chung Lam)
Shing-Cheung Lee	...	Mr. Cao (as Sheung Ching Lee)
Wen Xue Yao	...	Storm Dragon
Min Hun Fung	...	P. E. Teacher
Yong Hua Han	...	Maggie
Yu Lei	...	Johnny's Entourage
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Cole Barba	...	Johnny (voice: English version)
Qing Dong	...	Classmate
Hang-Sang Poon	...	Reporter (as Hang Sang Poon)
Tristan Price	...	Dicky (voice: English version)
Qian Shen	...	Classmate
Shun-Yee Yuen	...	Farmer (as Shun Yi Yuen)

Also Known As:

A Hope (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
CJ7 (International: English title)
Chang Jiang 7 hao (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Long River 7 (Philippines: English title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for language, thematic material, some rude humor and brief smoking.

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:PG | USA:PG | Malaysia:U | UK:PG | Hong Kong:IIA | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Netherlands:6 | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia

Trivia:

Xu Jiao, who plays Stephen Chow's son in this movie, is actually a girl.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the Dad is cutting the rotten part of the apple, he is cutting with the wrong side of the knife.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Dicky: Good morning, sir.
Mr. Cao: Dicky Chow! Just look at yourself. You're covered in dirt.
Dicky: [stepping forward] I just...
Mr. Cao: [stepping back] Don't move. And don't give me the usual routine. Why are you always so untidy?
Miss Yuen: What's the matter, Mr. Cao?
Mr. Cao: [to Dicky] Explain yourself!
Miss Yuen: Let me talk to him. Where did the dirt come from, Dicky?
Dicky: Well, on my way to school, I slipped and fell over.
Miss Yuen: Don't your mom or dad bring you to school?
[...]

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Soundtrack:

Masterpiece

Great story, acting and humour made this my first 10!

I saw this movie last night (i live in Taiwan) and before, if i highly enjoyed a movie and told people how good it was, their high expectations could make a movie less funny, you know what i mean? Anyway I'll praise the heck out of it coz i loved it and Stephen Chow has a great sense of humour! The movie is basically about a young boy and his father, who are poor but uphold good morals and ethics (we may be poor, but we don't steal, fight etc.). The father is a construction worker and doesn't want his kid to wind up like him, so the boy attends a very expensive high class school, but to compensate they live in a falling apart building and his father gets all his clothes etc. from the garbage dump. One day the father finds something there that he gives to his son, this (CJ7) changes their lives, for the better. I know that's probably what every review says! but i don't want to say to much as I'll probably ruin the beauty of it all! I will say that there are some scenes that nearly made me cry i as laughing so much. It's subtle things that do it, like the teacher won't let the poor student boy near him because he thinks he's so dirty! And the boy's a great little actor, cracked me up. Unfortunately i have yet to view S.Chow's other flicks, but i'm about to. I hope you'll get a chance to watch it.