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My Best Bet (2025)

My Best Bet poster
Original title
祥賭必贏
Directed by
Law Yiu-Fai
Genre
comedy
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
IIA
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman who cannot stop gambling gets married to a man who hates it. She tries to break her habit while dealing with the funny messes her addiction creates.

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What happens

My Best Bet (Chinese: 祥賭必贏) is a 2025 Hong Kong comedy film directed and written by Andy Lo. Starring an ensemble cast of Charlene Choi, Louis Cheung, Stanley Yau, Kayan9896, Chu Pak Hong, Bowie Wu, Yeung Wai-lun, and Renci Yeung, the film focuses on a pathological gambler (Choi) who struggles to overcome her addictions after marrying a husband (Cheung) who despises gambling. The film was conceived and developed in 2024, marking screenwriter-director Andy Lo's return to comedy writing. Principal photography took place from October to November of the same year. It was theatrically released in Hong Kong on 28 January 2025, as a Chinese New Year film of the Year of Snake. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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