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G Affairs (2019)

G Affairs poster
Original title
G殺
Directed by
Lee Cheuk Pan
Genre
drama film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
III
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage girl is bullied at school after her father, a corrupt cop, and her stepmother, a prostitute, are exposed online. The film follows her struggle to cope with the public shame and constant harassment.

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What happens

G Affairs (Chinese: G殺) is a 2018 Hong Kong thriller film directed by Lee Cheuk-pan and produced by Herman Yau. Starring Hanna Chan, Chapman To, and Huang Lu, the film centers on a young girl (Chan) who faces bullying at school due to the online exposure of her corrupted cop father (To) and the social status of her prostitute stepmother (Huang). Conceived by Lee Cheuk-pan in 2012, the film was stuck in development hell due to a lack of investment, as the story was deemed unsuitable for the Chinese market. After Kurt Chiang came on board as the writer and completely rewrote the screenplay in 2016, the film was selected for the First Feature Film Initiative. Pre-production lasted for a year, with filming commencing in December 2017 and wrapping up in February 2018. The film premiered on 16 November 2018 at the 15th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, and was theatrically released in Hong Kong on 14 March 2019. It received six nominations in the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards and was named Film of Merit in the 25th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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