Ella is a divorced Chinese American taxi driver who spends her days ferrying people around the roads of Sausalito, San Francisco. After work, she spends time with her 8-year old son, Scott....
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Maggie Cheung | ... | Ellen | |
| Leon Lai | ... | Mike | |
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Scott Leung | ... | Scott |
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Saisie M. Jang | ... | Mel G |
| AnnieScott Rogers | ... | Wealthy Lady | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Valerie Chow | ... | Virginia Chow | |
| Alan Draven | ... | Taxi driver | |
| Mark Hefti | ... | Tony | |
| Eric Kot | ... | Bob | |
| Suki Kwan | ... | Tina | |
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Jeffrey Lei | ... | Taxi Driver (as King Kong) |
| Carl Ng | ... | Mike's friend | |
| Richard Ng | ... | Robert | |
| Jed Rowen | ... | Homeless Man (as Jed Low) | |
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Andrew Schmidt | ... | Chinese speaking caucasian |
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Ella is a divorced Chinese American taxi driver who spends her days ferrying people around the roads of Sausalito, San Francisco. After work, she spends time with her 8-year old son, Scott. Ella meets Mike at Sky House, an infamous pick-up joint. Awkward strangers at first, they nonetheless find passion and what they want in each other. For Mike, it was but a one night stand amongst many, but it has affected Ella a great deal. Irritated at first, Mike cannot help but eventually be touched by Ella's sincerity. For a while, they spend happy times together. But when Mike's company is threatened, his attempts to save it by having an affair with a lady chairman. Not only are his efforts in vain, they also cause Ella to leave him. A year has passed and Ella has gone back to her old job. Mike, successful again with his new company, realizes that Ella is his only love. But a more mature Ella is now able to see her infatuation for what it is. It finally takes a near disaster to bring two ... Written by L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
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Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai are among my favourite Asian actors, but any hopes I had that they would set the screen on fire again after their partnership in 'Comrades: Almost a Love Story' were soon dashed as it became clear this unassuming romantic comedy contains very little comedy, and not much romance either.
It starts off well enough. Ellen (Cheung) is a cab driver in San Francisco, raising a young son. Invited to a nightclub, she ends up having an uncomfortable one-night stand with Mike (Lai), who appears to be some kind of dot-com playboy millionaire. I say 'appears to be' as for some reason Lai underplays the role to such a degree that he seems bored most of the time - and this rubbed off on me.
Naturally the two hit it off and begin to learn more about each other, until Mike's business deals start to go sour, which disrupts his relationship with Ellen. Can true love overcome such a hurdle, etc.?
The opening half hour focuses on Ellen, and Cheung is more than capable of drawing us her lonely, struggling character. It's regrettable then that the focus shifts to Lai's rather unlikable character for the remainder of the film, and even more regrettable than the film starts to pile more and more unlikely scenarios on us right up to its (anti)climax.
I was actually sad I didn't like this flick. The setting is certainly different, it's well shot by Andrew Lau (although the musical score is horrible), and I usually enjoy Cheung and Lai. There was simply more NOT to like, though, including an uncomfortable and almost homophobic role for the wonderful Richard Ng (Wong Jing's influence, I suspect), and the wasting of Valerie Chow as a corporate femme fatale.
If you're a huge fan of the stars, you may see past the story and enjoy this one. It didn't work for me, though.
The Deltamac version looks decent enough, and the subtitles are OK, although definitely not perfect.