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The Marriage Certificate VCD

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All Editions Rating: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8.5 out of 10 (2)

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At once funny and undeniably real, director Huang Jianxin's The Marriage Certificate is a satirical portrait on the covenant of marriage in contemporary Chinese life. Young Xiaowen (Li Xiao Meng) narrates the story of her parents' maritaltroubles, which stem from a minor incident and eventually grows to far more. Mother Xie Yuting (Lui Lai Ping) is an engineer, while father Gu Ming (Feng Kung) is a psychiatrist. When Yu Ting's factory announces the giveaway of a blanket to all employees married for eighteen or more years, Yu Ting is happy to hear of it. But the giveaway requires a marriage certificate as proof, and Yuting can't find hers. When efforts to reclaim the certificate prove elusive, a wedge is driven between the parents, until ultimately only Xiaowen can attempt to save her parents' marriage. Huang Jianxin uses a seemingly small and unconnected series of incidents to reveal greater insecurities and fears present in every marriage. The Marriage Certificate finds witty intelligence and telling truths in this sublimely arresting tale of a modern Chinese family.
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Product Title: The Marriage Certificate 結婚証 结婚证 結婚証 The Marriage Certificate
Artist Name(s): Lu Li Ping | Feng Kung | Li Xiao Meng 呂麗萍 | 馮鞏 | 李小萌 吕丽萍 | 冯巩 | 李小萌 呂麗萍(ロイ・ライピン) | 馮鞏(フォン・コン) | Li Xiao Meng Lu Li Ping | Feng Kung | Li Xiao Meng
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Release Date: 2002-06-19
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
Disc Format(s): VCD
Rating: IIA
Publisher: Universe Laser (HK)
Other Information: 2VCDs
Package Weight: 80 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1001836480

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主演:馮鞏╱呂麗萍╱李小萌
Cast: Feng Gong/ Lu Li Ping/ Li Xiao Meng
導演:黃建新
Director: Huang Jian Xin

  當猛然發現昔日的時光不再,曾經海誓山盟的婚姻、堅信不移的精神,都受時間的長河侵蝕得盪然無存,你會怎麼辦?心有不甘、發瘋似的尋回不合時宜的東西,也許只換來鬧劇一場。雨婷所堅持的一紙婚書、一個毛澤東肖像背後,又對你有甚麼啟發呢?

  As time passes, when you suddenly discover that the one you lived has become a different person, and the things you believed in no longer exist, what will you do? A marriage certificate and a Mao portrait spurs Yuting on to fight and bring back the past, resulting in a comic tragedy...... could her story be yours too?
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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8.5 out of 10 (2)

Kevin Kennedy
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November 21, 2009

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Can this marriage be saved? Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
In "The Marriage Certificate", a naughty teen daughter stirs up trouble between her parents with consequences the girl never anticipated. Through the manipulative machinations of Xiaowen (Li Xiao Meng), her mother Yuting (Lu Li Ping) becomes obsessed with finding her marriage certificate. Yuting tears up the house looking for the document, driving her husband, psychiatrist Gu Ming (Feng Kung), to his wits' end. The daughter then plants the seed with her mother that Gu Ming just might be having an affair with his pretty young intern. Through these suspicions and obsessions, the parents' once-complacent marriage is brought to the brink of divorce ... a divorce that they can't obtain until they find that marriage certificate!

Director Huang Jianxin is a master at illustrating the joys and stresses of family life, at merging whimsical humor with serious human issues, and at limning the comical excesses of China's bureaucratic government. He also has a knack for drawing delightful performances from child actors, as with Li Xiao Meng in this film and with the little boy in the equally excellent film "Something About Secret". "The Marriage Certificate" is very highly recommended.
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Anonymous

October 18, 2003

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Lovely movie Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
This is one of my favorite all-time movies. It is a must-watch movie for couples, especially long time marriages. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.
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