'' In-Laws, Out-Laws ''（ zh, 我的大嚿父母）is a Lunar New Year

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directed by

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, and it is also the first Lunar New Year film in the south. Because the film is adapted from the Cantonese TV series " Kang's Family", the filming and themes are mainly based on

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. In addition, the Chinese name does not allow the use of dialects, so it is only called the film version of "Kang's Family".

Shooting background

As early as January 2002, because the TV series "Kang's Family" was broadcast in

, the highest peak was 41.39 points

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intended to make the drama into

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in order to give the audience a TV short drama. Feeling. Guangdong TV also commissioned the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics to do market research, and found that only

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, more than 40% of the people expressed their expectations for the film.黄百鸣要拍南方首部贺岁片
，Guangdong TV website reported，30% of the people will come to watch it with their families after the movie version of "The Foreign Daughter-in-law" is , Guangdong TV, Yingyang Communication Co., Ltd. and

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reached an agreement on February 28, 2003, to start filming.黄百鸣拍电影版《外来媳妇本地郎》
��網易引信息時報報道，Officially signed on April 25 of the same year and released it during the Spring Festival in 2004. At that time, the director of Oriental Film Huang Baiming, who signed the contract on behalf of Oriental Film, said at the signing ceremony, "I believe that with my 20-year experience in making Hong Kong New Year's films and the hot ratings of the TV series "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang", the movie version of 'Foreign Daughter- He laughed and said, "It will be more wonderful to do than TV series." He also said, "Successful in the south is more satisfying than Hong Kong (successful in Hong Kong)."。The producer used this film to break the situation of

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's New Year's movie monopoly, and occupied a place for the Southern New Year's movie. According to the report of Guangdong TV，The original plan was for Huang Baiming to play the role of "Kangbo" in the film, while Azu's girlfriend was starred by

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, and even joined by

Blackie Ko Blackie Ko () (February 22, 1953 – December 9, 2003) was a Taiwanese film director, producer, stuntman, singer and actor. Blackie was considered to be the greatest automotive stunt choreographer in Asia. Personal life In 1956, his family move ...

.广州“家有喜事”　西关故事搬上银幕　高志森执导电影版《外来媳妇本地郎》
，廣東電視台報道 It turned on in Guangzhou on September 13, 2003. The movie's Xiguan House is taken from No.2, Yunxianfang, Huagui Xiheng Street, Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong.

Synopsis

Kang's ancestral home in

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is suspected to have found ancient cultural relics, and the Kang family is overjoyed. Mrs. Kang (played by Shen Dianxia) announced that she would divide the found property into four parts. She and her three sons, A Guang (played by Su Zhidan), A Zong (played by Guo Chang) and A Yao (played by Peng Xinzhi), but the part that has not yet been familyed or divorced is temporarily kept by her. Kang Bo (played by Zeng Zhiwei), who took his young son Azu (played by Yu Wenle) to Hong Kong to search for gold in Hong Kong twenty years ago, read the news and also returned to Guangzhou to get a piece of the pie. In order to realize the "dream of making a fortune", a series of funny things happened...

Cast list

Box office

The film was released in Hong Kong in January 2004. It has been released for less than two weeks and grossed 250,000 yuan at the box office.

References

External links

《我的大嚿父母》官方网站
* * * * {{IMDb title, 0415177 2004 films Cantonese-language films 2000s comedy films Hong Kong comedy-drama films Films set in Guangdong Films based on television series