The Story Of My Son (1990)

Original title

愛的世界

Directed by

Johnnie To

Genre

drama film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed father in Hong Kong struggles to raise his two young sons while drowning in debt from his wife's medical bills. After turning to loan sharks, he loses control over his finances and his relationship with his children, leading to a kidnapping that threatens to tear his family apart.

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What happens

是1990年上映的一部香港劇情片，由杜琪峰執導，劉松仁、吳孟達、劉兆銘及李司棋主演，童星黃坤玄及鄭柏林憑本片獲得35屆亞太影展最佳童星獎。 妻子去世之後，撫養兩個孩子的巨大責任落到了李子良（劉松仁 飾）的肩上，為了替妻子治病，家中早已負債累累，再也無法繼續生活的李子良最終走上了借高利貸的不歸路。等待他的結局只有一個，那就是利息不斷的增加，最終無法償還，與此同時，李子良和兩個兒子之間的關係也越來越差。 外公從外地趕來，得知了家中所發生的一切，他毅然決定幫助李子良還債。然而，高利貸公司並沒有就此放過李子良，反而變本加厲，將他的同事所欠的債務也強加到了他的頭上。李子良決定帶著兩個孩子遠走高飛，沒想到大兒為了取父親心愛的手錶耽擱了，導致小兒子被黑道綁架，情況一度陷入危機。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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