IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
(富貴逼人)
dir. Clifton Ko Chi-sum, 1987
Hong Kong. 96 min.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.

FRIDAY, MARCH 1 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 9 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 18 – 7:30 PM

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TV reporter, Bill (Bill Tung), struggles to make ends meet to support his wife, Lydia (Lydia Sum), and three daughters in a rapidly changing Hong Kong. When Lydia wins the lottery, Bill assumes all their family’s prayers will finally be answered. Yet after a series of compounding mishaps, misunderstandings, and misadventures, Bill begins to wonder if this stroke of good fortune may have ultimately changed the family’s luck for the worse.

Next to the Hui Brothers, who effectively revitalized the concept of the Lunar New Year movie in the early 1980s, Clifton Ko may be the name most closely associated with the tradition. Released on New Years Eve 1987, IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD became hugely popular on its initial run, spawning a string of successful sequels and helping shape the humor, style, and feel-good tone of New Years movies in the years to come.