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Spacked Out

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Spacked Out
無人駕駛
Directed byLawrence Ah Mon
Story byFour Tse Liu-Shut
Produced byJohnnie To
StarringDebbie Tam Kit Man
Christy Cheung Wing-Yin
Angela Au Man Sze
Maggie Poon MeiKei
Vanessa Chu Man Wah
Lam Hoi-Man
CinematographyLai Yiu Fai
Edited byAndy Chan Chi Wai
Production
company
Distributed byMei Ah Entertainment (Hong Kong)
Release date
  • 5 April 2000 (2000-04-05) (Hong Kong)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$1,358,000

Spacked Out (Chinese: 無人駕駛) is a 2000 Hong Kong social realist[1] film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon and produced by Johnnie To. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.

Plot

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The story follows four adolescent girls,[2] Cookie, Sissy, Banana and Bean Curd, around Tuen Mun in the New Territories of Hong Kong[3] as the youngest of the group, 13-year-old Cookie, finds out that she may be pregnant, but her boyfriend has left for Mong Kok to sell bootlegged VCDs.[4]

Cast

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  • Debbie Tam (Kit Man Tam) as Cookie
  • Christy Cheung (Wing Yin Cheung) as Sissy
  • Angela Au (Man Sze Au) as Banana
  • Maggie Poon as Bean Curd
  • Chu Man-Wah (Vanesia Chu) as Leung Lai-Yee
  • Hoi-man Lam as Mosquito

Awards

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The film opened the 2000 Hong Kong International Film Festival for its world premiere.[5] It received a "Films of Merit" award at the 7th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards in 2000.

References

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  1. ^ Gan, Wendy (2005). Fruit Chan's Durian Durian. Hong Kong University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-962-209-743-8.
  2. ^ Peterson, Nathalie (2002). "Spacked Out (Mo Yan Ka Sai)". San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. p. 60. Retrieved 8 February 2024. (via Issuu)
  3. ^ Stokes, Lisa Odham (2007). Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0810855205. LCCN 2021697613.
  4. ^ Pang, Laikwan (7 May 2007). Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia: Copyright, Piracy, and Cinema. Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 9781134263738.
  5. ^ 香港電影回顧專題: 跨界的香港電影: Hong Kong cinema retrospective (in Chinese and English). 康樂及文化事務署 (Kang le ji wen hua shi wu shu). 2000. p. 7. ISBN 978-962-7040-78-1.
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