Our Sister Hedy VCD

A trip through rose-colored glasses to a simpler, more sentimental time, Our Sister Hedy is one of the standout films from the Cathay Studios library, and a fine showcase for star actresses Mu Hong, Julie Yeh, Lin Cui, and Soo Fung. The four actresses play sisters to a sole parent, patriarch Wang Yuanlong, who must come to terms with the fact that his four precious and unique daughters are reaching the age of marriage, and will soon be leaving him for their own lives. Meanwhile, the sisters entertain various suitors and go about their daily lives. They also bicker and banter, but are always there for one another in their individual struggles to maintain the independence - or simply to be heard! A loving look at the dynamics of family, and the bond of sisterhood which unites above all, Our Sister Hedy is another wonderful film from Cathay Studios, and mixes comedy, drama, and even a little pathos with a sweet tone that can only be called nostalgia.

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Product Title:	Our Sister Hedy 四千金 四千金 四千金 Our Sister Hedy
Artist Name(s):	Julie Yeh | Lin Cui | Mu Hong | Su Feng 葉楓 | 林翠 | 穆紅 | 蘇鳳 叶枫 | 林翠 | 穆红 | 苏凤 Julie Yeh | Lin Cui | Mu Hong | Su Feng Julie Yeh | Lin Cui | Mu Hong | Su Feng
Release Date:	2003-03-24
Language:	Mandarin
Subtitles:	English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin:	Hong Kong
Disc Format(s):	VCD
Publisher:	Panorama (HK)
Other Information:	2VCDs
Package Weight:	140 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1002531919

導演：陶秦
Director: Tao Chin

　　希達、希倫、希棣和希索等四姊妹自小喪母，性格各不同。希達賢良淑德，為了照顧父親和三名妹妹，身兼母職，連自己的終身大事也置諸腦後；希倫風情萬種，男人見一個俘虜一個，整日沉醉在被追求的甜蜜中；希棣爽朗好勤，活像小男生；希索則嬌俏柔弱，沒丁點兒主見。在希棣的穿針引�M下、大姐終覓得如意郎君，但一個轉身，卻被希倫勾引過去；希索也掉進了變河，而且還決定與男友私奔，把急性子希棣弄得頭昏轉向﹗《四千金》的格局有點類似Loiusa May Alcott的經典閣秀小說《小婦人》，但陶泰的改編，卻成功地給故事附予了一份強烈的時代感，四個女主角的性格也刻劃得活靈活現，加上選角恰到好處｛穆虹的大方得體、葉楓的千嬌百媚、林翠的活潑生鬼、蘇鳳的小鳥依人｝，遂造就出一套百看不厭的時代經典，它的廣受歡迎使陶秦在五九年拍了續集《蘭閣風雲》。

　　A romantic comedy classic in every sense of the words, Our Sister Hedy depicts the intriguing love affairs of four sisters who would easily remind one of the four female protagonists in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. But scriptwriter and director Tao Qin was clever enough to update Alcott's novel to contemporary Hong Kong in the late fifties, adding to it "one car-crash, a two-way catfight, three musical numbers and a long series of parties, around which major drama always occur" (quoted from the booking brochure of Back to Dreamland, Cathay Retrospective, organized by the Hong Kong Film Archive). The film features one of the first (and finest) performances of Julie Yeh Feng and Jeanette Lin Cui. The former gives an almost unprecedented portrayal of a nymph-like compulsive seductress in the Hong Kong cinema, whilst the latter, a tomboyish young woman who is more interested in arranging the marriages for her elder sisters than her own. The film won the Best Film Award at the 5th Asian Film Festival. Its enormous popularity prompted a sequel, Wedding Bells for Hedy in 1959.