"positive review based on 77 reviews. Metacritic, a web site that evaluates films by averaging their overall critical response, gave the film a metascore of 67, signifying generally favorable reviews. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for and received many film awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and a Golden Globe award for Best Picture-Music or Comedy. As Good as It Gets As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as"
"by his lover, fully exposing his genitals; a variety of East Asian actors whose genitals are shown in ""The Pillow Book"" (1996); of Hong Kong Chinese lead actor Sunny Chan in a bathroom scene as he enters a shower, fully revealing his genitals for a few moments, in the Hong Kong film ""Hold You Tight"" (1997), directed by Hong Kong film director Stanley Kwan; of mainland China lead actor Wang Hongwei in the mainland China film ""Xiao Wu"" (English title: ""The Pickpocket"", 1998), directed by a leading Sixth Generation movement Chinese film director, Jia Zhangke, in which a young Chinese"
"Taiwanese, but dubbed in Cantonese. Both dubbed Asian versions refer to the Demons as the ""Wolves,"" although in the end credits the actors are credited as ""Demons."" Mr. Nice Guy (1997 film) Mr. Nice Guy (一個好人, LSHK ""Jat1 go3 hou2 jan4"") is a 1997 Hong Kong action film directed by Sammo Hung, who makes a cameo as an unfortunate cyclist. The film stars Jackie Chan and Richard Norton. The film was released in Hong Kong on January 31, 1997. ""Mr. Nice Guy"" features a collaboration between Jackie Chan and Richard Norton, reuniting them for the first time since 1993's ""City"
"The Chinese Cat The Chinese Cat (also titled Murder in the Funhouse) is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Mr. Manning is murdered in his study while the door is locked from the inside. Police close the case after 6 months. A girl contacts Charlie Chan to have a look before he leaves in 48 hours. Twins are involved in a diamond-smuggling ring after the Kohinoor Diamonds are stolen; one twin is killed and the other living twin masquerades as a ghost tricking Birmingham Brown. Mr. Manning had the largest stone stored in the secret compartment"
"bay and be done with it, but again I'm only human and this thing is worth a lot of money."" The Jade Pussycat The Jade Pussycat is a 1977 pornographic film starring John Holmes. The plot of the film focuses on the search for a priceless jade carving from 13th century China known as ""The Jade Pussycat"". The character of ""Johnny Wadd"" is sent to find the Jade Pussycat and find the thieves who stole the item from a museum in Japan. During the search, Mr. Wadd is met by many lustful women. The film is set mainly in San"
"Xiao Wu Xiao Wu () also known as The Pickpocket is a 1997 Chinese movie directed by Jia Zhangke. The film was the directorial debut of Jia Zhangke, one of the major figures of the so-called Sixth Generation of Chinese cinema and stars Wang Hongwei in the titular role along with Hao Hongjian and Zuo Baitao. Xiao Wu was filmed in the city of Fenyang in 16 mm. The film is set in 1997, with the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong being mentioned in the background. The place is a small provincial town, dirty and poor. ""Xiao Wu"" is"
"and the disclaimer at the end was unnecessary, they also found it funnier than anything in the movie. Mr. Magoo (film) Mr. Magoo is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Hong Kong film veteran Stanley Tong (his sole English language film) and written by Pat Proft and Tom Sherohman. A live-action film adaptation of UPA's cartoon of the same name, it was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and starred Leslie Nielsen as the title character, alongside Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer Garner and Malcolm McDowell. The film was a critical and commercial failure,"
"The Jade Pussycat The Jade Pussycat is a 1977 pornographic film starring John Holmes. The plot of the film focuses on the search for a priceless jade carving from 13th century China known as ""The Jade Pussycat"". The character of ""Johnny Wadd"" is sent to find the Jade Pussycat and find the thieves who stole the item from a museum in Japan. During the search, Mr. Wadd is met by many lustful women. The film is set mainly in San Francisco's Chinatown. Paul Thomas Anderson, director of ""Boogie Nights"", recommended that his cast watch the film to prepare for their"
"with cinematographer Yu Lik-wai and producer Li Kit Ming. With their support, Jia was able to begin work on ""Xiao Wu"", which would become his first feature film. ""Xiao Wu"" was shot on a mere 400,000 RMB budget (or about $50,000 US). ""Xiao Wu"" was praised by the American filmmaker Martin Scorsese, a noted fan of Jia's works. Xiao Wu Xiao Wu () also known as The Pickpocket is a 1997 Chinese movie directed by Jia Zhangke. The film was the directorial debut of Jia Zhangke, one of the major figures of the so-called Sixth Generation of Chinese cinema and"
"Mr. Nice Guy (1997 film) Mr. Nice Guy (一個好人, LSHK ""Jat1 go3 hou2 jan4"") is a 1997 Hong Kong action film directed by Sammo Hung, who makes a cameo as an unfortunate cyclist. The film stars Jackie Chan and Richard Norton. The film was released in Hong Kong on January 31, 1997. ""Mr. Nice Guy"" features a collaboration between Jackie Chan and Richard Norton, reuniting them for the first time since 1993's ""City Hunter"" and also Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung had worked in the 1985's ""Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars"". ""Mr. Nice Guy"" was filmed in Melbourne, Australia. Television journalist"
"The Opium War (film) The Opium War (鸦片战争) is a 1997 Chinese historical epic film directed by Xie Jin. The winner of the 1997 Golden Rooster and 1998 Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Picture, the film was screened in several international film festivals, notably Cannes and Montreal. The film tells the story of the First Opium War of 1839–1842, which was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the British Empire, from the perspectives of key figures such as the Chinese viceroy Lin Zexu and the British naval diplomat Charles Elliot. Unlike many of its contemporaries, ""The Opium War"""
"real directorial talent, and I hope he can build on this foundation."" Kevin Bacon was named Best Actor at the Giffoni Film Festival, and the film won the Children's Jury Award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Digging to China Digging to China is a 1997 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Timothy Hutton and the screen debut of Evan Rachel Wood. The screenplay by Karen Janszen focuses on the friendship forged between a precocious pre-teenaged girl with a vivid imagination and a mentally challenged adult male. Set in the mid-1960s, the story centers on"
"of a Chinese cat statue, and doublecrossed his associates. Movie ends in a carnival funhouse with police arresting the diamond-smuggling ring for three murders. Rival author of ""Manning Murder Solved"" book must now pay $20,000 to Chinese War Relief after a lost bet with Charlie Chan about the murderer's identity. The film was the second Charlie Chan movie from Monogram. It was originally called ""Charlie Chan and the Perfect Crime"" and filming started4 January 1944. The Chinese Cat The Chinese Cat (also titled Murder in the Funhouse) is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Mr. Manning"
"Bob Peck as the venal opium trader Denton. The film's domestic release was also positive, with ""The Opium War"" eventually winning the Golden Rooster for Best Film. The Opium War (film) The Opium War (鸦片战争) is a 1997 Chinese historical epic film directed by Xie Jin. The winner of the 1997 Golden Rooster and 1998 Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Picture, the film was screened in several international film festivals, notably Cannes and Montreal. The film tells the story of the First Opium War of 1839–1842, which was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the British Empire, from"
"Digging to China Digging to China is a 1997 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Timothy Hutton and the screen debut of Evan Rachel Wood. The screenplay by Karen Janszen focuses on the friendship forged between a precocious pre-teenaged girl with a vivid imagination and a mentally challenged adult male. Set in the mid-1960s, the story centers on ten-year-old Harriet Frankovitz, a lonely outcast who lives with her mother and older sister Gwen in a dilapidated North Carolina motel with cabins shaped like teepees her mother received as part of her divorce settlement. Harriet has a"
"That Darn Cat (1997 film) That Darn Cat is a 1997 American mystery comedy film directed by Bob Spiers, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and starring Christina Ricci and Doug E. Doug. It is a remake of the 1965 film ""That Darn Cat!"", which in turn was based on the book ""Undercover Cat"" by Gordon and Mildred Gordon. A pair of bumbling kidnappers break into the house of the president with the intention of kidnapping his wife and holding her for ransom. Things don't go according to plan when they mistakenly kidnap house maid Lizzie instead. Patti Randall"
"mining vehicle from the site. The authorities arrive, including Romeo, but decide to state that they did not witness anything and that it was all just a gang battle, so Jackie goes free while the mobsters are arrested for possession of cocaine. According to his book ""I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action"", Chan hurt his neck when he messed up on a flip during a fight scene. He also broke his nose during filming. ""Mr. Nice Guy"" opened on Chinese New Year, 1997, up against director Hung's own ""Once Upon a Time in China and America"". Both were"
"Chinese Box Chinese Box is a 1997 movie directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Michael Hui. The movie is set and was made at the time of Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China on June 30, 1997. The film credits Paul Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explores in his 1997 novel ""Kowloon Tong"". The movie unfolds at least nine different stories on very different levels. First, there is John as a reporter, trying to capture interesting scenes on the streets of Hong Kong, persuading"
"Mr. Magoo (film) Mr. Magoo is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Hong Kong film veteran Stanley Tong (his sole English language film) and written by Pat Proft and Tom Sherohman. A live-action film adaptation of UPA's cartoon of the same name, it was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and starred Leslie Nielsen as the title character, alongside Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer Garner and Malcolm McDowell. The film was a critical and commercial failure, grossing $21 million, falling short of its $30 million budget. Criticism singled out the seemingly mocking portrayal of"
"Once Upon a Time in China and America Once Upon a Time in China and America, also known as Once Upon a Time in China VI, is a 1997 Hong Kong–Chinese martial arts film directed by Lau Kar-wing and Sammo Hung in his last directorial effort until ""The Bodyguard"", who also worked on the film's fight choreography. The film is the sixth and final installment in the ""Once Upon a Time in China"" film series. It also saw the return of Jet Li as Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung, who was replaced by"
"Vincent Zhao in the fourth and fifth films. The film was released in the Hong Kong on 1 February 1997. Wong Fei-hung, Clubfoot Seven Chiu-Tsat and ""13th Aunt"" cross the Pacific Ocean to America to visit Bucktooth So, who has opened a Po-chi-lam clinic there. While traveling by carriage through the wilderness, they pick up a friendly cowboy named Billy, who is almost dying of thirst. When the party stops to have lunch, a bunch of hostile Native Americans ambush them. Wong, Clubfoot Seven Chiu-Tsat and 13th Aunt escape unharmed but their carriage slides off a cliff and falls into"
"Dao again, and they fight, but Yipao's skill is insufficient. The fat beggar and Yipao then team up, using the monkey style kung fu, against Jia Wu Dao's snake style. As their fight moves outside of the wine shop, the fat beggar and Yipao defeat Jia Wu Dao, killing him with spiked vines, finally avenging Taipao's death. The fat beggar reveals that he is an undercover detective trying to arrest criminals, particularly Jia Wu Dao. The domestic Hong Kong theatrical release of ""Knockabout""' ran from 12 - 25 April 1979, taking HK $2,830,519. Knockabout (film) Knockabout (Chinese:雜家小子; ""Za jia xiao"
"China Jones China Jones is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, directed by Robert McKimson and released in 1959. Daffy Duck is China Jones, an Irish private investigator working in the Far East. He finds a fortune cookie containing a call for help which stated: ""Help. I am being held prisoner in a Chinese Bakery"". and decides to investigate. This is actually a trap set by a vengeful criminal whom Jones had busted before. Several times throughout, Jones' assistant. Charlie Chung (Porky), a caricature for Charlie Chan reminds China Jones that he owes him"
"commercial failure in India, where it grossed on its opening day. Kung Fu Yoga Kung Fu Yoga (Gong fu yu jia) is a 2017 Chinese action-adventure comedy film, written and directed by Stanley Tong, and starring Jackie Chan. The film's cast includes Chinese actors Aarif Rahman, Lay Zhang, and Miya Muqi, and Indian actors Sonu Sood, Disha Patani, and Amyra Dastur. The film was released in China on 28 January 2017 and in India on 3 February 2017. Featuring original music composed by Nathan Wang. It is Jackie Chan's highest-grossing film in China. It was also the highest-grossing comedy film"
"Crazy Safari Crazy Safari () also known as The Gods Must Be Crazy III is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film, directed by Billy Chan. The film is an unofficial sequel to ""The Gods Must Be Crazy II"" and part of a trend of jiangshi films, horror comedies with hopping corpses, that were popular in Hong Kong throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It was followed by ""Crazy Hong Kong"" (1993) and ""The Gods Must Be Funny in China"" (1994). An ancient but still fleshy Chinese corpse is on auction in England. A young businessman (Sam Christopher Chow) purchases the corpse."
"Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 36%, based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. Skiptrace (film) Skiptrace is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese-American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Renny Harlin, produced, starring and based on a story by Jackie Chan. The film co-stars Johnny Knoxville and Fan Bingbing. It was released in China on July 21, 2016 and in the United States on September 2, 2016. Hong Kong detective Bennie Chan (Jackie Chan) has been tracking notorious crime boss ""Matador"" – whom he believes to be businessman Victor Wong (Winston Chao) – for over a"
"eastern Chinese port of Ningbo. In August 2007 the film was given the title ""CJ7"", a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. ""CJ7"" became the highest-grossing film of all time in Malaysia. In 2013, his film ""Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons"" became the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time. In 2016, his new film ""The Mermaid"" broke numerous box office records: Biggest opening day, biggest single-day gross after its seventh day of release, biggest opening week of all time in China. On 19 February, it became the highest-grossing film of all time"
"a great deal of money, revealed at the end to be due to a large laundry bill. When Jones tells Chung ""Confucius say, 'can squeeze blood from turnip!'"", the latter threatens him with a club, telling him ""Also say, 'B-better you press shirt than press luck!'"" The last scene shows Jones being forced to work for Chung, as he speaks in ""Chinese"": ""Help! - I'm being held prisoner in a Chinese Laundry!"" (in reference to the earlier fortune). China Jones China Jones is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, directed by Robert McKimson and"
"China Salesman China Salesman (), also known as Deadly Contract, is a 2017 Chinese action film co-written and directed by Tan Bing. The film stars Li Dongxue and features Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal. It was released in China on 16 June 2017. Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael is ordered to go to the North Africa and win the competition, so that France can"
"box office impact of major Hollywood blockbusters. However, not all domestic films are successful financially. In January 2010 James Cameron's ""Avatar"" was pulled out from non-3D theaters for Hu Mei's biopic ""Confucius"", but this move led to a backlash on Hu's film. Zhang Yang's 2005 ""Sunflower"" also made little money, but his earlier, low-budget ""Spicy Love Soup"" (1997) grossed ten times its budget of ¥3 million. Likewise, the 2006 ""Crazy Stone"", a sleeper hit, was made for just 3 million HKD/US$400,000. In 2009–11, Feng's ""Aftershock"" (2009) and Jiang Wen's ""Let the Bullets Fly"" (2010) became China's highest grossing domestic films,"
"A Chinese Odyssey A Chinese Odyssey is a two-part 1995 Hong Kong fantasy-comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau and starring Stephen Chow. The first part is titled A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box while the second one is called A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella. The film is very loosely based on the Wu Cheng'en novel ""Journey to the West"". A third film, A Chinese Odyssey Part Three, was released in China on September 14, 2016. 500 years ago, during their journey to the west to fetch the Buddhist scriptures, Monkey got annoyed with the constant nagging of his"
"the 2005 film, """" and 2015's """". The film was released in China on 17 August 2017 and in Hong Kong on 25 August 2017 and has grossed US$80.8 million worldwide against a budget of US$14.5 million. The film well received by critics, with praise directed towards action director Hung's choreography, which won him the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography, and Koo's physical and emotional performance, which netted him both the Asian Film Award for Best Actor and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, winning his film first acting awards. Aside from winning the two aforementioned"
"Kung Fu Yoga Kung Fu Yoga (Gong fu yu jia) is a 2017 Chinese action-adventure comedy film, written and directed by Stanley Tong, and starring Jackie Chan. The film's cast includes Chinese actors Aarif Rahman, Lay Zhang, and Miya Muqi, and Indian actors Sonu Sood, Disha Patani, and Amyra Dastur. The film was released in China on 28 January 2017 and in India on 3 February 2017. Featuring original music composed by Nathan Wang. It is Jackie Chan's highest-grossing film in China. It was also the highest-grossing comedy film in China, until it was overtaken by ""Never Say Die"" (2017)."