A broke family finds $10 million and legally has to WAIT to spend it—chaos ensues.
So's family lives in financial despair. They always argue about money. One day So Kam Po accidentally picked up a briefcase which has $10 million inside. According to the law, Kam Po owns that 10 million if no one claims it in 6 months. Kam Po wants to pull his family together, so he buys a cafe from his brother Hoi. For the next six months, the family's relationships improve as they all chip in to run the cafe together. Time flies when you're having fun--and when there's a $10 million pot of gold at the end of your rainbow. Will So's pot of gold be there waiting for him once his waiting period is over?
Acting
Wayne Lai's desperate everyman energy carries the whole thing.
Writing
The ticking-clock premise keeps 100 minutes surprisingly tight.
Director
Yip Wai-Ying
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures post-handover Hong Kong's economic anxiety—ordinary people fantasizing about escaping the grind through pure luck.
Director Yip Wai-Ying barely directed again after this, making this a quirky one-off in Hong Kong cinema's golden era of comedies.
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