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Promising Miss Bowie (1990)

Promising Miss Bowie poster
Original title
祝福
Directed by
Yonfan
Genre
drama
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman navigates complicated relationships and personal choices in Hong Kong. The story follows her romantic entanglements and the emotional weight of promises made and broken.

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What happens

《祝福》(英語:Promising Miss Bowie)是楊凡执导的一部香港电影,编剧为楊凡、羅鳳鳴、方志豪,由鄭裕玲、葉蘊儀、秦漢主演,並由陳奕詩、曾江、李家聲、黃霑等聯合演出。1990年4月在香港首映。電影主題曲《諾言》由葉蒨文主唱。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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