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Soursweet

Soursweet

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 15, 1988

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

53%

Original Title

Soursweet

Production Companies

First Film Company, British Screen Productions, Film4 Productions

Director

Mike Newell

Description

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.