Singapore Dreaming

– "Singapore Dreaming" ( 美满人生) is a story about a family with big dreams, living on a small is..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.00 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 45 Minutes
Release Year:
2006
Original Name:
美满人生
Singapore Dreaming (2006) - Also known as 美满人生

"Singapore Dreaming" ( 美满人生) is a story about a family with big dreams, living on a small island. Heavily in debt, patriarch Loh Poh Huat can’t help but feel bitter irony whenever he has to perform his job as a lawyer’s clerk – seizing goods from the homes of credit card debtors. At the end of his career and frustrated by the gulf between his middle class dreams and his working class reality, he takes his feelings of failure and envy out on his family. So when Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, the Lohs start believing that maybe this windfall will deliver them from their struggles. But something happens which pitches the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself...

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Release Date:

07 Sep 2006

Language:

Mandarin, Hokkien, English, Cantonese

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Colin Goh(co-director), Yen Yen Woo(co-director)

Writer:

Colin Goh, Yen Yen Woo

Main Actors:

Richard Low, ZioZio Lim, Serene Chen, Yann Yann Yeo

Plot:

When Loh wins the lottery, his family believes the money will deliver them from their struggles. However, he dies abruptly, pitching the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself.

Awards:

3 wins.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.0/10