Chilli Laugh Story

Chilli Laugh Story
Promotional poster
Traditional Chinese闔家辣
Simplified Chinese阖家辣
Literal meaningFamily Friendly
Hanyu PinyinHé jiā là
Directed byCoba Cheng
Written by
Produced bySandra Ng
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
  • Curran Pang
  • Azrael Chung
  • Alvin Wu
Music by
  • Original Score Supervisor:
  • Lincoln Lo Kin
Production
companies
  • One Cool Film Production
  • Treasure Island Production Co., Ltd.
  • Media Asia Film
  • We Production Co.
Distributed byWe Distribution
Intercontinental Film Distributors (HK)
Release date
  • 14 July 2022 (2022-07-14)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
BudgetHK$11.34 million (US$1.46 million)[1]
Box officeest. HK$32.61 million (US$4.2 million)[2][3]

Chilli Laugh Story (Chinese: 闔家辣) is a 2022 Hong Kong comedy film co-written and directed by Coba Cheng, a debutant director. An amusing and sometimes unexpectedly poignant comedy starring Ronald Cheng, Gigi Leung, Edan Lui, and Sandra Ng, it was initially scheduled to release on 1 February 2022, the first day of Lunar New Year, but it was postponed due to COVID-19 and finally released on 14 July 2022.[4][5]

The film was invited to 21st New York Asian Film Festival,[6] where it had its international premiere on 20 July and won NYAFF Audience Award.[7]

Produced with a budget of HK$11.34 million (US$1.46 million), the film has grossed HK$32.61 million (US$4.2 million) as of 25 September 2022 and currently it is the 4th highest-grossing, Hong Kong-produced film of 2022.[2]

  1. ^ "電影發展基金融資製作電影《闔家辣》本地首映" [Film Development Fund Financing to Produce the Local Premiere of the Film "Family Spicy"]. Info.gov.hk (in Chinese). 11 July 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
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  3. ^ "Chilli Laugh Story". Box Office Mojo. IMDb.
  4. ^ Edmund Lee (12 July 2022). "Review — Chilli Laugh Story movie review: Mirror's Edan Lui leads Lunar New Year comedy that mixes family antics, naughty jokes and social commentary". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  5. ^ Mo Kuangyao (28 May 2022). "闔家辣 — Edan主演史上首部暑期賀歲片 胡子彤：票房唔係靠我哋原文網址: 闔家辣" [Family friendly — Edan starring in the first summer Chinese New Year film in history, Hu Tong: The box office doesn't depend on us]. Hong Kong 01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 3 August 2022.
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