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Linger

Original title: Hu die fei
  • 2008
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
293
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Linger (2008)
DramaRomance

A woman is revisited by the ghost of her ex-boyfriend, three years after a car crash took his life.A woman is revisited by the ghost of her ex-boyfriend, three years after a car crash took his life.A woman is revisited by the ghost of her ex-boyfriend, three years after a car crash took his life.

  • Director
    • Johnnie To
  • Writer
    • Ivy Ho
  • Stars
    • Vic Chou
    • Bingbing Li
    • Maggie Siu
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    293
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Johnnie To
    • Writer
      • Ivy Ho
    • Stars
      • Vic Chou
      • Bingbing Li
      • Maggie Siu
    • 3User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Linger (2008)
    Linger (2008)
    Johnnie To and Wai Kit Pang at an event for Linger (2008)
    Catherine Chan, Wan-San Ting, Wing-Cheong Law, Johnnie To, Chi-Keung Fung, Tin-Shing Yip, Allen Leung, and Wai Kit Pang at an event for Linger (2008)
    Linger (2008)

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    Vic Chou
    Vic Chou
    • Zheng Jing Dong
    Bingbing Li
    Bingbing Li
    • Foo Yan Kai
    • (as Li Bing Bing)
    Maggie Siu
    Maggie Siu
    • Ms. Chan
    • (as Maggie Shiu)
    Suet Lam
    Suet Lam
    • Yan's Roomate
    • (as Lam Suet)
    Roy Cheung
    Roy Cheung
    • Dr. Yuen
    Yi-kei Fong
      Wong You-nam
      • Hui Luk Wo
      • (as Wong You Nam)
      Mia Yam
        Jimmy Fu
        Ronald Yan
        Ronald Yan
        • Doctor
        Wai Leung Hung
        Wai-Ling Chan
          Rachel Chan
          Cody Wong
          Queenie Wong
          Man-Chun Wong
            Shu Ming Leung
              Pui Sze Au
                • Director
                  • Johnnie To
                • Writer
                  • Ivy Ho
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                • Soundtracks
                  ONLY MEMORY
                  Performed by Bingbing Li

                  Music Composed & Arranged & Mixing by Guy Zerafa and Dave Klotz

                  Lyrics by Lin Xi

                  Vocal Producer: Benny Bi

                  O.P. Touch Music Publishing Pte. Ltd.,

                  EMI Music Publishing (S.E. Asia) Ltd., Taiwan Branch

                  S.P.: EMI Music Publishing Hong Kong

                User reviews3

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                1/10
                An Effective Alternative to Waterboarding
                This film is painfully, offensively bad. I was stunned that this was a Johnny To film, since he's a director of no small talent when it comes to crime dramas and gangster films. But clearly, romance is not his forte.

                The script was the kind of amateurish glop you'd expect from a smitten teenage girl. Void of real drama, the attempts at character development were silly and pointless. Most scenes consisted of endless discussions between the leads about what might have been, or emotionally overwrought reactions to events. The dialog was agonizing to experience, and in constant violation of the "show, don't tell" rule of writing by having characters speak aloud lines that should have been subtext.

                And then there's the music; the ugly, ugly music. Imagine drowning in sweet green cough syrup, choking on mouthfuls of saccharine while your brain is numbed into a surreal dextromethorphan haze. It's awful beyond description, wielded like a sonic sledgehammer in every single scene as a desperate attempt to manufacture emotion where none exists. Sawing one's ears off with a steak knife is the only appropriate response.

                If you see a copy of this film, run screaming in the opposite direction as if it were a shattered vial of the Ebola virus -- exposure WILL cause you to vomit blood.
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                5
                • wordmonkey
                • May 4, 2008

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                Details

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                • Release date
                  • January 10, 2008 (Hong Kong)
                • Country of origin
                  • Hong Kong
                • Official site
                  • Official site
                • Languages
                  • Mandarin
                  • Cantonese
                  • English
                • Also known as
                  • 僕は君のために蝶になる
                • Production companies
                  • Sundream Motion Pictures
                  • Sil-Metropole Organisation
                  • Milky Way Image Company
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                Box office

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                • Gross worldwide
                  • $1,103,223
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                • Runtime
                  1 hour 28 minutes
                • Color
                  • Color
                • Sound mix
                  • Dolby Digital
                • Aspect ratio
                  • 2.35 : 1

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