What Women Want (2011 film)
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What Women Want | |
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Directed by | Chen Daming |
Screenplay by | Chen Daming |
Produced by | Chen Daming Don Yu |
Starring | Andy Lau Gong Li |
Cinematography | Max Wang |
Edited by | Nelson Quan |
Music by | Christoper 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 by | Beijing Polybona Film Distribution Co. Ltd. (China) Emperor Motion Pictures Distribution Workshop (Hong Kong) |
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Running time | 115 minutes[1] |
Countries | China Hong Kong[1] |
Language | chains |
Budget | US$5 million |
Box office | US$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
External links
- What Women Want at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- What Women Want at Hong Kong Cinemagic
- What Women Want at IMDb
- Justified Remake? Liu Dehua and Gong Li meet at last in 'Wo Zhi Nuren Xin' - 'What Women Want' at Thinking Chinese
Categories:
- 2011 films
- Chinese films
- Hong Kong films
- Mandarin-language films
- Cantonese-language films
- 2010s romantic comedy films
- 2010s fantasy films
- Chinese romantic comedy films
- Chinese fantasy films
- Hong Kong romantic comedy films
- Hong Kong fantasy films
- American film remakes
- Hong Kong remakes of American films
- Films set in Beijing
- Films shot in Beijing
- Chinese film stubs
- 2010s romantic comedy film stubs