One Night in Supermarket (2009)

Original title

夜·店

Directed by

Qing Yang

Genre

comedy film, crime film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A jobless man and his dimwitted cousin take the staff of a 24-hour supermarket hostage because the owner refused to pay out a lottery win. As the night goes on, a series of odd characters wander into the store and turn the situation into a messy comedy.

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What happens

One Night in Supermarket is a 2009 Chinese comedy film directed and written by Yang Qing, starring Xu Zheng, Li Xiaolu, Qiao Renliang, Yang Qing (not the director), Zhang Jiayi, Zhao Yingjun and Wang Dongfang. The low-budget movie, Yang's directorial debut, was filmed over 29 days in basically one location. The story begins when a jobless man (Xu) and his doofus cousin (Wang) hold hostage the young employees (Li and Qiao) at a 24-hour supermarket, because the mart owner (Yang) had denied his lottery win. Hilarity ensues when a moronic prankster (Zhao), a myriad of shoppers, the mean owner and an at-large gunman (Zhang) enter the mart one after another. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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