''Everybody's Fine'' (

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directed by Zhang Meng. It was released in China on January 1, 2016. It is the second remake of 1990 Italian film of the same name.

Plot

Zhiguo Guan, a retired geologist, has been communicating with his four children through his wife for years. Although he loves them, he has a difficult time expressing it, as he sits in his home. After his wife died, Guan suddenly realized the distance between himself and his children. He expects to finally see his children at a family reunion, however, none of them are able to attend. He then travels to different part of the country alone to visit his "smug" and "grown" children. There are many funny, tearful stories happened during this experience. Zhiguo Guan first visits his little son, Hao Guan, who is a photographer in

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. He arrives at his son's studio and finds there is no one in the studio. He waits downstair for a day, but still, nobody appears. It later turns out that Hao Guan travels to

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and encounters snow slides. He is in the hospital getting treatments. Zhiguo Guan then travelss to

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to visit his big daughter, Qin Guan. She divorces with her husbands and Zhiguo Guan finds out this fact only until this visit. Next, Zhiguo Guan travelss to

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to visit his big son, Quan Guan. Quan Guan resigns from his original job and decides to start up a business with his friends. He lives with his friends in small apartments. He has not told Zhiguo Guan, his father about any of these facts. Zhiguo Guan travels to

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to visit his youngest daughter, Chu Guan. Zhiguo Guan thinks his youngest daughter is a ballet dancer, but it turns out that Chu Guan works as a dummy ballet doll at a restaurant. All of Zhiguo Guan's children were hiding their true lives from their father, just like the title of the movie, ''Everybody's Fine''. But at the end of the movie, all the children comes home at Chinese New Year and the family finally reunites.

Production

Ma Ke, a producer of the film, worked with

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to gain an adaption copyright license to make the Chinese version of the Italian film.

Inspiration

Ma Ke stated that after watching the original Italian film, he aimed to create a Chinese version. He believed that the plotline of the film would be successful in China.

Cast

Zhang Guoli Zhang Guoli (born 17 January 1955) is a Chinese actor and film director who was a ''xiangsheng'' actor before he started working on films and television series. He is mostly known for his roles playing the Emperor in various dramas involving Qin ...

as Zhiguo Guan *Yao Chen as Qin Guan *

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as Quan Guan *Ye Yiyun as Chu Guan *

Chen He Chen He (; born 9 November 1985), also known as Michael Chen, is a Chinese actor. Chen is noted for playing Zeng Xiaoxian in the romantic comedy television series ''IPartment'', which enjoyed the highest ratings in China when it was broadcas ...

as Hao Guan * Zhang Yi as Husband of Qin Guan *

Zhang Xinyi Zhang Xinyi (, born 29 May 1981) is a Chinese actress and director. She ranked 95th on ''Forbes'' China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 99th in 2014, and 80th in 2015. Biography Zhang was born in 1981 in Ziyang, Sichuan province. After graduating ...

as Chu Guan's girlfriend

Guest Role

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as Taxi passenger *

Zhang Yibai Zhang Xiaoling, better known by his stage name Zhang Yibai () (born 14 April 1963, in Chongqing, China) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer. Directorial career Zhang began his career in television and music videos before dir ...

as Scammer Playing Erhu * Guo Yong Zhen as Guan Quan's neighbour

Critical Reception

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, a major Chinese media rating site, rate the movie 6.5/10. A review article of the movie fro
Asian Film Strike
called it "a visually pleasing fable".

Soundtrack

Box Office

The film grossed US$2.76 million on the opening weekend, and a total of US$3.80 million.

References

Chinese comedy films 2016 comedy films Films directed by Zhang Meng Chinese remakes of foreign films {{China-film-stub