6 May 2008

Money No Enough (10th Anniversary Release)

Original Title: Qian Bu Gou Yong

Director: Tay Teck Lock

Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, English with English subtitles

Starring: Jack Neo, Mark Lee, Henry Thia

Release: 2008-05-06

Released in 1998, this side-splitting, socially-astute comedy written by and starring Jack Neo made a whopping $5.8 million at the box-office and revived the then-moribund Singapore film industry.

With its generous use of dialects and frank examination of topical Singaporean issues, Money No Enough was a watershed in Singapore cinema. It revealed Jack as a writer-actor-director who, among other things, really did have his fingers on the pulse of the Chinese community.

Ten years after its surprising success, Golden Village is re-releasing the film at select GV theatres, giving moviegoers a hearty dose of nostalgia for a time when Jack Neo's jokes were actually fresh and funny.