| 词条 | Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive |
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| name = Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive | image = Life_Is_Cheap..._But_Toilet_Paper_Is_Expensive_Poster.jpg | image_size = | caption = | director = Wayne Wang | writer = Spencer Nakasako Amir Mokri Wayne Wang | narrator = | starring = Cheng Wan Kin | music = Mark Adler | cinematography = Amir Mokri | producer = Winnie Mokri | editing = Sandy Nervig | studio = | distributor = Lions Gate Entertainment Silverlight Entertainment | released = {{film date|1990|8|24}} | runtime = 83 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | website = | amg_id = }}Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive is a 1989 film directed by Wayne Wang.[1] The film stars Cheng Wan Kin and John Chan. It won an award at the 1990 Rotterdam International Film Festival.[2] The film was the subject of controversy when it originally received an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, the distributor, Silverlight Entertainment, chose to release it without this rating and with a self-anointed adults-only A rating.[3] On their TV show for the week of August 13–17, 1990, the late film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert praised the decision to apply the A rating since it was a concept they had often discussed on At the Movies in the context of harshly criticizing the MPAA's standards of forcing serious films aimed at adult audiences to either undergo damaging edits to receive R ratings or be locked out of most theatrical and advertising outlets. Both critics, however, also said the film itself was not very good.[4] However, for anyone who lived in Hong Kong during the preceding five years, the movie was incredibly funny, a series of Hong Kong insider jokes, as well as moving, with a big storyline about what families went through to get precious Western passports. Plot summaryA man is hired, by people he believes to be gangsters, to deliver a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. Cast
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1991) Review/Film; A Quirky Return to Hong Kong, the Last Frontier|authorlink=Vincent Canby|first=Vincent|last=Canby|date=1990-08-24|work=The New York Times|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CEEDD133AF937A1575BC0A966958260}} 2. ^{{cite web|work=International Film Festival Rotterdam |title=KNF Award |url=http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/programme/awards/knf_award/ |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307232116/http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/programme/awards/knf_award |archivedate=2013-03-07 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web|work=The Los Angeles Times|title=Distributor Rejects X Rating, Gives Its Adult Film an A|date=July 25, 1990|first=David|last=Fox|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-25/entertainment/ca-1225_1_adult-rating}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url = http://siskelandebert.org/video/YD6AS1NMBDSX/Flatliners--Young-Guns-II--The-Two-Jakes-1990|title = Flatliners / Young Guns II / The Two Jakes (1990).|date = |accessdate = August 12, 2015|website = Siskel & Ebert|publisher = |last = |first = |at = Event begins at 17:46}} External links
10 : 1989 films|Films directed by Wayne Wang|Films set in Hong Kong|Films set in the United States|Films set in China|Films set in the 1980s|American black comedy films|American films|American comedy films|1980s comedy films |
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