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6.4/10   119 votes
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Director:
Liew Seng Tat
Writer:
Liew Seng Tat (writer)
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Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
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(2 articles)
Kala Malam Bulan Mengambang is Best Film at Festival Filem Malaysia
 (From Twitch. 10 August 2008, 1:45 AM, PDT)
Festival Filem Malaysia: Anak Halal leads the noms
 (From Twitch. 5 August 2008, 2:22 AM, PDT)
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Cast

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Zi Jiang Wong ... Ma Li Ohm
Ming Wei Lim ... Ma Li Ahn
James Lee ... Ah Sui
Amira Nasuha ... Ayu
Mislina Mustaffa ... Ayu's Mother
Inom Yon ... Ayu's grandmother (as Mak Inom)
Azman Hassan ... Mamat
Wen Xin Yong ... Maria Tiew
Kah Loong Lo ... Ah Fatt
Zhang Phang Chong ... Lost boy
Venus Chong ... Lost boy's mother
Tuck Cheong Wong ... Headmaster
Farah Abdul Rani ... Malay Tudung teacher
Kiew Suet Kim ... Mrs. Ong
Andre Au ... Mrs. Ong's son
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
Malaysia
Language:
Malay | Mandarin | English | Cantonese
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Company:
Da Huang Pictures more

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First Malaysian film released on DVD in The Netherlands. more

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As beautiful as a flower, 15 June 2008
7/10
Author: Vergilya from Malaysia

This is one of those sweet indie movies that you would enjoy for its simplicity, the small things in life and down to earth realism. Liew Seng Tat, the director, writer and editor, has done a marvelous job in showcasing two young brothers and their everyday antics in an unsophisticated town. The composition is artistic, the acting natural and the storyline flows with ease. It is poignant, funny and heartwarming. And it makes you feel tingly all over.

The boys and their father hardly spend any time together due to the nature of their father's job. This is a movie with a clear message of innocence being scrutinized and misconstrued as defiance by adults. If anything, the director/writer must have had some fairly similar experience or his comprehension of a child's mind is admirable.

Some of the memorable scenes include their friendship with a girl known as Atan who brings them home for lunch one day and how their names are glamorized by her mother, and then there was the fish incident which makes one think of eating fish again and how the two boys prepare their strange concoction which is to be their dinner.

James Lee, a well known director and writer, plays the somber looking, anti-social and overworked father with credible dedication. The three children certainly steals the entire show.

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