Best known in the US for the brutally funny KUNG FU HUSTLE (2004), Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow's family-friendly homage to E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL is significantly gentler than his earlier films, but equally offbeat.
Condemned by lack of education to a life of backbreaking, underpaid manual labor, impoverished widower Ti Chow (Chow) wants more for his son, Dicky (nine-year-old Xu Jiao, who's actually a girl), and is willing to sacrifice anything -- including his health and pride -- to send the child to the private Bo Si School. Dicky adores his father and understands that they're poor -- he and Ti make a game of killing cockroaches in their pestile...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG
Length:
86 mins