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What Women Want (2011 film)

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What Women Want
Directed byChen Daming
Screenplay byChen Daming
Produced byChen Daming
Don Yu
StarringAndy Lau
Gong Li
CinematographyMax Wang
Edited byNelson Quan
Music byChristoper O'Young
Production
companies
Beijing Bona Film and Cultural Communication Co., Ltd
China Film Group Corporation
DMG Entertainment Group
Emperor Motion Pictures
Bona Entertainment Company Limited
Focus Film Limited
Distributed byBeijing Polybona Film Distribution Co. Ltd. (China)
Emperor Motion Pictures
Distribution Workshop (Hong Kong)
Release dates
  • 3 February 2011 (2011-02-03) (China)
  • 17 February 2011 (2011-02-17) (Hong Kong)
Running time
115 minutes[1]
CountriesChina
Hong Kong[1]
Languagechains
BudgetUS$5 million
Box officeUS$11,831,362[2]

What Women Want is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic and action comedy film remake of the 2000 American film of the same name. The film stars Andy Lau and Gong Li. What Women Want was released in China on the 3 February 2011, the first day Chinese New Year.

The plot is strongly based on the original Hollywood version, with some adaptations to 2010s China. The plot takes place mostly in an advertising company in Beijing, in which Lau plays a slick ad agency creative director who gets acquainted with his new talented competition, played by Gong. He is helped when he gets the ability to hear women's thoughts due to a freak accident. The film is about strong women and shows what women are capable of doing.

Cast

  • Andy Lau as Sun Zigang
  • Gong Li as Li Yilong
  • Yuan Li as Yanni
  • Banny Chen as Xiao Fei
  • Hu Jing as Zhao Hung
  • JuJu as Xiao Wu
  • Li Chengru as CEO Dong
  • Anya Wu as Dong's wife
  • Osric Chau as Chen Erdong
  • Wang Deshun as Sun Meisheng
  • Chen Daming as Young Sun Meisheng
  • Mavis Pan as Pan's secretary
  • Russell Wong as Peter
  • Kelly Hu as Girl in Lotto Commercial
  • Ping Wong as Foo Ping Pong

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "What Women Want (我知女人心) - Film Business Asia".
  2. ^ "What Women Want at boxofficemojo.com".