Spacked Out
2000 Hong Kong film
- 5 April 2000 (2000-04-05) (Hong Kong)
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Spacked Out (Chinese: 無人駕駛) is a 2000 Hong Kong social realist[1] film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon and produced by Johnnie To. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong.
Plot
The story follows four adolescent girls,[2][3] Cookie, Sissy, Banana and Bean Curd, around Tuen Mun in the New Territories of Hong Kong[4] as the youngest of the group, 13-year-old Cookie, finds out that she may be pregnant, but her boyfriend has left for Mong Kok to sell bootlegged VCDs.[5]
Cast
- Debbie Tam (Kit Man Tam) as Cookie
- Christy Cheung (Wing Yin Cheung) as Sissy
- Angela Au (Man Sze Au) as Banana
- Maggie Poon as Bean Curd
- Chu Man-Wah (Vanesia Chu) as Leung Lai-Yee
- Hoi-man Lam as Mosquito
Awards
The film opened the 2000 Hong Kong International Film Festival in its world première.[6] It received a "Films of Merit" award at the 7th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards in 2000.
References
- ^ Gan, Wendy (2005). Fruit Chan's Durian Durian. Hong Kong University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-962-209-743-8.
- ^ Daniel, Lisa; Jackson, Claire (2003). The Bent Lens: A World Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film (2nd ed.). Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia: Allen & Unwin. p. 380. ISBN 978-1741140149.
- ^ Peterson, Nathalie (2002). "Spacked Out (Mo Yan Ka Sai)". San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. p. 60. Retrieved 8 February 2024. (via Issuu)
- ^ Stokes, Lisa Odham (2007). Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0810855205. LCCN 2021697613.
- ^ Pang, Laikwan (2006). Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia: Copyright, Piracy, and Cinema. Oxfordshire, England: Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 978-0415352017.
- ^ Leisure and Cultural Services Dept, Hong Kong (2000). 香港電影回顧專題: 跨界的香港電影 (Hong Kong cinema retrospective : border crossings in Hong Kong cinema) (in Chinese and English). 康樂及文化事務署 (Kang le ji wen hua shi wu shu). p. 7. ISBN 978-962-7040-78-1.
External links
- Spacked Out at IMDb
- HK cinemagic entry
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Films directed by Lawrence Ah Mon
- Gangs (1988)
- Queen of Temple Street (1990)
- Lee Rock (1991)
- Lee Rock II (1991)
- Spacked Out (2000)
- My Name Is Fame (2006)
- City Without Baseball (2008)
- Besieged City (2008)
- Tales from the Dark 2 (2013)
- Dealer/Healer (2017)
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