Underplayed Gems

Just Follow Law (2007)

Just Follow Law poster
Original title
我在政府部门的日子
Directed by
Jack Neo
Genre
comedy, drama, fantasy
Country
Singapore
Runtime
1h 52m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A comedy about office workers in an events and promotion department who deal with the frustrations of government bureaucracy. The film pokes fun at red tape and workplace politics in Singapore.

lightheartedplayfulsatiricalbureaucraticenergetichumorousnostalgicfamily-friendly

What happens

Just Follow Law (Chinese: 我在政府部门的日子) is a 2007 Singaporean comedy film directed by Jack Neo. The film also features a sing-along session near to the end of the film and everyone was singing the theme song called A Worthy and Useful Person (有用的人) from Jack Neo's earlier popular and successful movie known as I Not Stupid. It also features cast members from popular local English and Chinese Sitcoms Under One Roof, Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, Police & Thief, Living with Lydia, Happy Belly, My Grandson, the Doctor, Can I Help You? and Family Combo (Chinese Sitcom), and also from the Singaporean local drama With You and Jack Neo's previous educational movies I Not Stupid and I Not Stupid Too. It also marks the on-screen reunion of Gurmit Singh, Neo Swee Lin and Lim Kay Siu and Henry Thia after their previous collaboration in Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, and that they will collaborate again in the future in the movie known as Phua Chu Kang The Movie. Suhaimi Yusof and Silvarajoo Prakasam would later collaborate again in Jack Neo's kampong and HDB Flat movies known as Long Long Time Ago, Long Long Time Ago 2, The Diam Diam Era and The Diam Diam Era Two. In the film, an events and promotion department director and a blue-collar worker technician swap souls after a freak accident at a fictional government agency Work Allocation Singapore (WAS). It was first released in Singapore on 15 February 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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