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1988 film

Soursweet

Directed by	Mike Newell
Screenplay by	Ian McEwan
Based on	Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
Produced by	Roger Randall-Cutler
Starring	Sylvia Chang Danny Dun
Cinematography	Michael Garfath
Edited by	Mick Audsley
Music by	Richard Hartley
Distributed by	Curzon
Release date	1988 (1988) (UK)
Running time	110 minutes
Language	English

Soursweet is a 1988 British film directed by Mike Newell. The screenplay was written by Ian McEwan from the 1982 novel Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo.

Plot

The story, set in the 1960s, is a comedy drama about a young Hong Kong Chinese couple who emigrate to England and start a family. Initially Chen works long hours in a Chinese restaurant while his wife Lily looks after their baby, dreaming of the day when they can open their own business. When Chen becomes indebted to Triads through gambling he decides it is time for his family to go at it alone.

Cast

Sylvia Chang as Lily
Danny Dun as Chen
Jodi Long as Mui
Soon Tek-Oh as 'Red' Cudgel
Jim Carter as Mr. Constantinides
William Chow as White Paper Fan
Shih Chieh King as Night Brother

Honours

Golden Hugo (Best Feature Film) - Chicago International Film Festival (nominated)

References

External links

Soursweet at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Mike Newell
Feature films	The Awakening (1980) Bad Blood (1981) Dance with a Stranger (1985) The Good Father (1985) Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) Soursweet (1988) Enchanted April (1991) Into the West (1992) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) Donnie Brasco (1997) Pushing Tin (1999) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Great Expectations (2012) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Television	Of the Fields, Lately (1976) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) Birth of a Nation (1983) Blood Feud (1983) The Interestings (2016)

Films directed by Mike Newell

Feature films

The Awakening (1980)
Bad Blood (1981)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
The Good Father (1985)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Soursweet (1988)
Enchanted April (1991)
Into the West (1992)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Great Expectations (2012)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

Television

v t e Works by Ian McEwan
Novels	The Cement Garden (1978) The Comfort of Strangers (1981) The Child in Time (1987) The Innocent (1990) Black Dogs (1992) Enduring Love (1997) Amsterdam (1998) Atonement (2001) Saturday (2005) On Chesil Beach (2007) Solar (2010) Sweet Tooth (2012) The Children Act (2014) Nutshell (2016) Machines Like Me (2019) The Cockroach (2019) Lessons (2022)
Story collections	First Love, Last Rites (1975) In Between the Sheets (1978)
Children's novels	Rose Blanche (1985) The Daydreamer (1994)
Television plays	Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration (1976) The Imitation Game (1980) Solid Geometry (2002)
Screenplays	The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) Soursweet (1988) The Good Son (1993) The Innocent (1993) On Chesil Beach (2017) The Children Act (2017)

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