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Personal Tailor

Play trailer Poster for Personal Tailor Released Dec 20, 2013 1h 45m Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A company grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives.

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Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Messy in parts and at least 15 minutes too long, "Personal Tailor" is also cunningly acted and lushly photographed (by Zhao Xiaoshi) in dazzling candy-bright colors. Dec 19, 2013 Full Review Daniel Eagan Film Journal International The movie's carefree style and ingratiating cast help disguise a cynical outlook, making this one of the more intriguing releases from China this year. Dec 19, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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S M funny good :D And really nice ending. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/25/14 Full Review Audience Member Honestly speaking, this movie is not that great in term of cinematography and what not, but it is very well-written and full of great satires of present day China. I am surprised that this movie passed the authorities' inspections, as some scenes are blatant attacks on aspects of our society. Initially, I thought the concept would have worked better as a TV series, but in the end, I realized I was wrong, only as a film can it have the same effect on audience, a sudden sadness and realization of the degradation of China. The last scene especially hit me as a summary of the entire home, the way we are like this today, and how society has changed, why do we have to apologize for something that we have no control over? Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Shuo Wang exhibits his talent as a screenwriter, but Xiaogang Feng is too far away from his peak. The first and second story are reasonable. After that everything vanishes. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member If you know the Chinese current affair You can laugh louder... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member This latest Chinese comedy from the director Xiaogang Feng was written by Shuo Wang, and stars impressive cast - You Ge as Yang Zheng, Baihe Bai as Miss Bai, Li Xiao-lu as Xiaolu Lu, Zheng Kai as Ma Qing, Wei Fan as Song Dandan... oh, I almost forgot Jackie Chan as himself! Movie consist of few stories, and the title refers to a company run by Yang (the extravagantly talented You Ge) that pulls together elaborate settings and characters to persuade its clients that they are living their dreams. In the opening black-and-white segment, Ge plays a debonair but evil Nazi colonel so his client can enact a Resistance agent's martyrdom. If you are familiar with the work of the director Feng Xiaogang, you know that his recent movies include big historical epics Back to 1942 and Aftershock, but he really made his reputation with sunny, crowd-pleasing comedies like If You Are the One. Personal Tailor mimics the easy-going charm while tackling some pretty intractable modern-day problems. This is not best of the director's work, and the start wasn't very promising start, but Shuo Wang's episodic screenplay manages at the end for the good ideas to overtake the weak ones. Personal Tailor looks good and many will say that it is as good as just about any recent Hollywood comedy, and feels about a half-year newer - characters make fun of blogs, complain about McMansions, film themselves on smartphones, and take sex in all its iterations for granted... but sometimes is like those beauties on the screen... more make up than substance! Sloppy solutions were numerous, but the big excuse could be that the movie ran into censorship problems. Who in a right mind would dare to present politicians as universal cheats and the wealthy as above the law - and as ending to choose disturbing examples of China's pollution trouble. That was probably the most effective ending to a surprising comedy. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member è´ºå²?çæ~¯è¿å¹´å¿...éå"? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A company grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives.
Director
Feng Xiao-Gang
Producer
Eva Cao
Screenwriter
Wang Shuo
Distributor
China Lion Film Distribution
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 20, 2013, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 16, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$375.8K
Runtime
1h 45m