''Sweet Alibis'' is a 2014 Taiwanese comedy film starring

Alec Su Alec Su You-peng (born 11 September 1973) is a Taiwanese actor, singer, television producer, and film director. Su became a popular teen idol in the 1980s as a member of the boyband ''Xiao Hu Dui''. He was known as the "Obedient Tiger" (乖乖 ...

as a cowardly veteran cop and

Ariel Lin Ariel Lin Yi-chen (; born 29 October 1982) is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese actress and singer. She rose to fame for her role as Yuan Xiangqin in the Taiwanese drama ''It Started with a Kiss (TV series), It Started with a Kiss'' (2005) and the Chi ...

as an overzealous rookie. The film follows the pair who team up to solve crimes together in

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Plot

Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy's accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly digs up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.

Cast

Matt Wu Matt Wu Chung-tien (; born July 5, 1981) is a Taiwanese actor, film director and screenwriter. His short film ''Stairway'' (四十三階) won Best Asian Short Film Award at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in 2014. Personal life In 200 ...

* Lei Hong *

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* Ken Lin * Chu Chih-ying *

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* Kao Meng-chieh * Ma Nien-hsien * Bebe Du * Tao Chuan-cheng * Lin Chia-ling * Lee Kuo-hung *

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Theme song

* "Lao Tian You Yan" (老天有眼) performed by Alec Su (originally sung by Hei-pao in the 1980s)

Reception

It was the number-one film in Taiwan box office for a week in January 2014, but overall grossing was disappointing with only

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20.6 million (roughly $0.6 million) despite generally positive reviews. It was successful in the Chinese box office in March 2014, ranking only behind 2 Taiwanese films — ''

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'' (2011) and '' Black & White Episode I: The Dawn of Assault'' (2012) — in first-week grossing. It grossed ¥36.6 million (roughly $6 million) in mainland China.原音重現開兩岸電影契機
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Awards

*2014 51st

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**Nominated —

, Best Supporting Actress *2014

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**Nominated — Grand Prix *2014 6th Straits Film and Television Awards **Won — Favourite Taiwanese film in mainland China

Trivia

There are

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s in the film referencing characters from the TV series '' In Time with You'' (2011) starring Ariel Lin and ''

Romance in the Rain ''Romance in the Rain'' is a 2001 Chinese television period drama jointly produced by Yi Ren Communications Company (怡人傳播有限公司) in Taiwan and China International Television Corporation (中国国际电视总公司) in mainland China ...

'' (2001) starring Alec Su and Ruby Lin.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 3582088
Youtube - ''Sweet Alibis'' Trailer with English subtitles

''Hollywood Reporter'' review

''Taipei Times'' review
2010s crime comedy films 2010s Mandarin-language films Taiwanese crime comedy films Films directed by Lien Yi-chi 2010s buddy cop films 2014 comedy films