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Chicken Rice War

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Chicken Rice War
Directed byChee Kong Cheah (CheeK)
Written byChee Kong Cheah (CheeK)
Produced byDavid Leong
Suat Yen Lim
Starring
  • Pierre Png
  • May Yee Lum
  • Catherine Sng
  • Gary Yuen
  • Kevin Murphy
  • Kelvin Ng
  • Su Ching Teh
  • Wui Seng Cheong
  • Irene Ong
  • Weng Kee Lee
  • Gary Loh
  • Jo Jo Struys
  • Randall Tan
  • Zalina Abdul Hamid
  • Mohan Sachden
CinematographyDaniel Low
Edited byLawrence Ng
Release date
  • November 16, 2000 (2000-11-16)
Running time
100 min
CountrySingapore
LanguageCantonese / English

Chicken Rice War is a Singaporean romantic comedy film released in 2000 by Raintree Pictures. It is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in a Singaporean setting,[1] where fierce competition between rival chicken rice hawkers resulted in bitter enmity. The old feud between chicken rice hawker families' stand in the way of their young offspring who fell for one another.

Synopsis

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Chicken Rice War is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this movie the Montagues and Capulets are represented by the families Wong and Chan. Both families run Chicken Rice stalls side by side in the same market, something that the authorities say is impossible, since it is not allowed. The underlying conflict is about the secret family recipes that has been kept secret for generations, but apart from that nobody really knows what the fight is about.

Audrey Chan is a beautiful, vain and spoilt girl who is the most popular girl in school. Fenson Wong is an insecure young man with a stutter who, of course, is madly in love with Audrey. Their only common interest is Shakespeare and the version of Romeo and Juliet that they are setting up at school. When Fenson gets the chance to replace Audrey's beautiful but dim boyfriend as Romeo he starts seriously dreaming about capturing Audrey's heart.

Cast

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Pierre Png as Fenson Wong
May Yee Lum as Audrey Chan
Catherine Sng as Wong Ku
Gary Yuen as Vincent Chan
Kevin Murphy as Leon Deli
Kelvin Ng as Sydney Wong
Su Ching Teh as Penelope Chan
Wui Seng Cheong as Wong Terr
Irene Ong as Wendy Chan
Weng Kee Lee as Chan Tick
Gary Loh as Muscle Mike
Jo Jo Struys as Cheryl
Randall Tan as Nick Carter
Zalina Abdul Hamid as Fat Lady
Mohan Sachden as Muthiah
Alias Kadir as Ahmad
Edmund L. Smith as Mr. Pillay
Paul Tan as TV presenter
Tanya Chua as Herself
Jonathan Lim as Hugo A Go Goh
Uttsada Panichkul as Himself
Kevin Poh as Capulet
Jamie Yeo as Herself

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Chicken Rice War 鸡缘巧合". Asian Film Archive. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  2. ^ "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Awards"
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