I'm Livin' It (2019)

Original title

麥路人

Directed by

Hing Fan Wong

Genre

drama

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A homeless man named Cheung struggles to survive by staying in a Hong Kong McDonald's at night. He forms bonds with other people in the same situation. The film shows the hardships of poverty and the gap between rich and poor in the city.

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What happens

I'm Livin' It is a 2019 Hong Kong drama film directed by Danny Wong in his directorial debut and starring Aaron Kwok and Miriam Yeung. The film addresses the issues of rich-poor gap in the Hong Kong society, as well as poverty and homelessness and focuses on McRefugees. I'm Livin' It made its world premiere at the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival in the Asian Future section on 20 October 2019. The film also closed both the 4th London East Asia Film Festival on 3 November 2019, where Kwok was the subject of the festival's Actor Focus and also winning the Best Actor Award for his performance, and the 4th International Film Festival & Awards Macao on 20 December 2019 before it was theatrically released in Hong Kong on 17 September 2020. The film was nominated for ten awards at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Cheung Tat-ming. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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