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Mar 12, 2024 · We Are Family, Hong Kong comic Eric Tsang’s film about rent-a-families, starts off as a farcical showbiz satire before taking viewers on an emotional roller coaster, and ends as a...
- Family Fakery Inc.
- Entertaining, But Excessive
- Japanese Phenomenon, Hong Kong setting?
We Are Familybegins with an introduction to Chi Kwong (played by Eric Tsang), a bumbling middle-aged man who bums around as an extra on different films. Chi Kwong’s overwrought performance as a grandfather in one production attracts the attention of Carlos—a young man who runs a company called WeFamily that rents out its staff as fake family member...
By toggling between the viewpoints of each of WeFamily’s staff, We Are Familymanages to provide a multifaceted view of the complexities of family, and the lies that family members sometimes feel obligated to live in order to bring happiness, find meaning, or fulfill external expectations. We see how family rentals can impact not only multiple dimen...
Generally though, We Are Family proves a competent, and highly accessible, take on the rent-a-family phenomenon. However, it’s worth noting that rental family agencies, at least in the way they’re portrayed in the film (i.e. quite similar to the Japanese practice), don’t actually exist in contemporary Hong Kong. We Are Familyfeels oddly denationali...
Sep 3, 2010 · Though the dying protagonist in both films believe in living life to the fullest, the female patient in We Are Family largely shapes the film as a tearjerker unlike the lighthearted effervescence ...
English movie-rental, or Indian readymade remake: who cares? A warm, doting single mother, losing before her eyes, her life and her sweet children to fatal cancer, you can tell, is something...
- Mayank Shekhar
Upon release, We Are Family received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise directed towards Kajol and Kapoor's performances. [10] IANS rated the film 4 out of 5 saying, " We Are Family is equally appealing from the outside and at the heart".
We Are Family redefines the nuclear family and the ‘other’ in a way that has not been done before (in Hindi cinema). Kudos to debutant director Siddharth P. Malhotra. This review was originally published in the October issue of Newsline under the title “Family Redefined.”
Mar 28, 2024 · We Are Family: Directed by Wai-Hang Lau. With Carlos Chan, Catherine Chau, Eric Tsang, Niu Tien. Jia-cong, who came from a broken family, and Pei-yi, a single mother who had little talent on the entertainment road, founded a company that can provide "rental family" services.