Phua Chu Kang The Movie
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- Ong Su Mann
- Eng Boon Ping
- Tay Kong Hui
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| Directed by | Boris Boo |
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| Story by | Ong Su Mann |
| Produced by | Au Yuk Sing |
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| Cinematography | C.L. Yong |
| Edited by | Mak Chee Choong |
| Music by | Martyn Gillman |
Production companies | mm2 Entertainment Grand Brilliance |
| Distributed by | Golden Village Primeworks Studios RAM Entertainment |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Countries | Singapore Malaysia |
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| Budget | S$1 million |
| Box office | S$691,300[1] |
Phua Chu Kang The Movie is a Singaporean-Malaysian comedy film and sequel to sitcoms Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd and Phua Chu Kang Sdn Bhd. The film was released in Singapore on 12 August 2010 and Malaysia on 26 August 2010.
Following the events of Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd and Phua Chu Kang Sdn Bhd, Phua Ah Ma pays a visit to her eldest son and daughter-in-law being white-collar worker and general contractor Phua Chu Kang and his secretary wife Rosie Phua Chin Huay, who are currently based in Malaysia. Almost as soon as she arrives, she disappears, only to resurface mysteriously tending to an elderly man at a nursing home run by Lim Lau Pek, a crime boss and drug lord with his own gang who disguised himself as the owner of the nursing home, where the residents have been dying one by one, including an old man named Zaihan, one of the elderly man's good friend. Mistakenly, Lim believes Chu Kang is there to bid for a renovation job. Chu Kang agrees to the job only after Ah Ma calls in his nemesis, Frankie Foo, to bid for the job together with him, both in the hope of being awarded a lucrative job in the future. While Chu Kang is busy with construction, he misses his anniversary dinner with Rosie, who is wined and dined by Lim instead. At his luxurious mansion, Lim reveals that he has been siphoning the majority of funds from phone-in donations to the nursing home for his personal use. Shocked and guilty, Rosie attempts to convince Chu Kang to stop work to no avail. Meanwhile, Ah Ma reveals that the elderly man she has been looking after is Chu Kang's grandfather, Ah Kong, who abandoned Chu Kang in the belief that he would bring the family bad luck. Rosie joins forces with Ah Kong and Frankie, who has a crush on her, to find Lim's laptop in order to bring him to justice. The trio are caught in action by Lim and his 3 gangsters, who in turn are apprehended by the police that Chu Kang, who pretended to continue to work for Lim, called in. Chu Kang is reunited with Ah Kong, only to have Lim escape the clutches of the police before being caught by King Kong, who has returned from a date with the nursing home worker Angel. Chu Kang's reunion with Ah Kong is cut short when Ah Kong passes away, after accepting Chu Kang back to the family.
Cast
- Gurmit Singh – Phua Chu Kang, Ah Pa (Phua Chu Kang's father, Prince) and Ah Kong (Phua Chu Kang's grandfather, Ah Pa's father, King)
- Irene Ang – Rosie Phua Chin Huay
- Henry Thia – Lim Lau Pek and Lim Lau Hea
- Neo Swee Lin – Phua Ah Ma (Princess)
- Lim Kay Siu – Frankie Foo
- Charlie Tan – King Kong
- Angie Seow – Angel
- Leong Soh Chuo
- Arrif Effendy din Muaharan
- Dato Abd Aziz B.Imam Salleh
- Wong Yat Hong
- Lee Zu Thong
Production
As early as 2000, the idea of a Phua Chu Kang movie had already been floated. However, Gurmit Singh and team felt that they had to wait for a script that combined Phua's trademark Singlish and physical humour with heartfelt drama and added new characters so that audiences would be willing to pay for it.
For his double role as Ah Kong, Gurmit Singh had to spend two hours in make-up.
This was actress Angie Seow's debut movie role.
The movie was mostly filmed at Sri Seronok Retirement Village in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[2]
Scriptwriter Ong Su Mann refused to watch the movie after being "dismayed" by the number of lines in its two-minute trailer that he didn't write. Instead of attending the premiere, he sent his mother and sister, who slept through most of it.[3]