Needing You...(2000)
Needing You... (AKA: Orphaned Male Widow ; Traditional Chinese: 孤男寡女 ; Cantonese : Goo Naam Gwa Neui ; Mandarin : Gu Nan Gua Nü ) is a 2000 Hong Kong romantic comedy film, produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai and starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng.
Needing You's most extended—and winning—joke could be lost on many new fans of HK Cinema. The film possesses many references to the 1990 romantic drama A Moment of Romance, which starred Andy Lau and was produced by Johnnie To. In that film, Lau played a going-nowhere gangster named Wah Dee, and many of Needing You's more subtle joys are derived from the constant lampooning of Lau's role in that film, as well as his own established screen persona. As a result, those who know Lau as just "the guy who appeared in Infernal Affairs" might not get what other people find so funny.
Plot Summary
Needing You... is a comedic love story about Kinki Kwok (Sammi Cheng), a dysfunctional office worker at an electronics firm down on her luck with love. She's just as her name describes, a little out of order, with her refusal to cry when she's upset and preferring to do something more useful like clean the office's washroom or the interior of a car. And it just so happens she's secretly seen her boyfriend with another woman. All she has is her lucky charm inscribed with the words she wants her true love to say, but even that winds up missing.
Enter Andy (Wah-Siu) Cheung (Andy Lau), the manager in her department full of gossipy co-workers. Things seem to only to be getting worse for Kinki with Andy around, as she is constantly receiving the blame for the office's misfortunes. However, when Kinki manages to get Andy out of a sticky situation, he discovers some newfound respect for her loyalty and willingness to help, while Kinki thinks she may have deeper feelings for him. Together, they plot to get back at Kinki's double-crossing boyfriend and Andy's feelings for Kinki reciprocate. To further complicate things, Fiona (Fiona Leung), an old flame of Andy's reappears and tries to hook Kinki up with young .com billionaire Roger (Raymond Wong), while Andy has been accused of wasting company money on a failed project.
Box Office
During the slump in the Hong Kong film industry of the late 1990s, Needing You... raked in HKD 6.5 million during its 1st 3 days of opening in Hong Kong, and amassed a total of HKD 35 million in Hong Kong alone, rivaling John Woo's American film Mission: Impossible II which screened during the same period in Hong Kong and triumphing all other Hong Kong films screened for the past few years. In the same year, Summer Holiday earned HKD 21 million, which was ranked 2nd best-selling local film after Needing You... in Hong Kong.
Awards :
20th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards
• Nomination - Best Picture
• Nomination - Best Director (Johnnie To Kei-Fung, Wai Ka-Fai)
• Nomination - Best Actress (Sammi Cheng Sau-Man)
• Nomination - Best Screenplay (Wai Ka-Fai, Yau Nai-Hoi)
• Nomination - Best Song ("On the Love Line", performed by Sammi Cheng Sau-Man)
7th Annual Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
• Recommended Film
37th Annual Golden Horse Awards
• Nomination - Best Actress (Sammi Cheng Sau-Man)
Source : Wikipedia & LoveHKFilm.com
Needing You's most extended—and winning—joke could be lost on many new fans of HK Cinema. The film possesses many references to the 1990 romantic drama A Moment of Romance, which starred Andy Lau and was produced by Johnnie To. In that film, Lau played a going-nowhere gangster named Wah Dee, and many of Needing You's more subtle joys are derived from the constant lampooning of Lau's role in that film, as well as his own established screen persona. As a result, those who know Lau as just "the guy who appeared in Infernal Affairs" might not get what other people find so funny.
Plot Summary
Needing You... is a comedic love story about Kinki Kwok (Sammi Cheng), a dysfunctional office worker at an electronics firm down on her luck with love. She's just as her name describes, a little out of order, with her refusal to cry when she's upset and preferring to do something more useful like clean the office's washroom or the interior of a car. And it just so happens she's secretly seen her boyfriend with another woman. All she has is her lucky charm inscribed with the words she wants her true love to say, but even that winds up missing.
Enter Andy (Wah-Siu) Cheung (Andy Lau), the manager in her department full of gossipy co-workers. Things seem to only to be getting worse for Kinki with Andy around, as she is constantly receiving the blame for the office's misfortunes. However, when Kinki manages to get Andy out of a sticky situation, he discovers some newfound respect for her loyalty and willingness to help, while Kinki thinks she may have deeper feelings for him. Together, they plot to get back at Kinki's double-crossing boyfriend and Andy's feelings for Kinki reciprocate. To further complicate things, Fiona (Fiona Leung), an old flame of Andy's reappears and tries to hook Kinki up with young .com billionaire Roger (Raymond Wong), while Andy has been accused of wasting company money on a failed project.
Box Office
During the slump in the Hong Kong film industry of the late 1990s, Needing You... raked in HKD 6.5 million during its 1st 3 days of opening in Hong Kong, and amassed a total of HKD 35 million in Hong Kong alone, rivaling John Woo's American film Mission: Impossible II which screened during the same period in Hong Kong and triumphing all other Hong Kong films screened for the past few years. In the same year, Summer Holiday earned HKD 21 million, which was ranked 2nd best-selling local film after Needing You... in Hong Kong.
Awards :
20th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards
• Nomination - Best Picture
• Nomination - Best Director (Johnnie To Kei-Fung, Wai Ka-Fai)
• Nomination - Best Actress (Sammi Cheng Sau-Man)
• Nomination - Best Screenplay (Wai Ka-Fai, Yau Nai-Hoi)
• Nomination - Best Song ("On the Love Line", performed by Sammi Cheng Sau-Man)
7th Annual Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
• Recommended Film
37th Annual Golden Horse Awards
• Nomination - Best Actress (Sammi Cheng Sau-Man)
Source : Wikipedia & LoveHKFilm.com
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