Delete My Love

Delete My Love

Delete Love Ones

Delete My Love theatrical poster
Traditional Delete愛人
Simplified Delete爱人
Cantonese Delete ngoi3 jan4
Directed by Patrick Kong
Produced by Aaron Liao
Duncan Chui
Written by Patrick Kong
Starring Wong Cho-lam
Ivana Wong
Michael Hui
Music by Raymond Wong
Cinematography Kenny Tse Chung-To
Edited by Li Ka-Wing
Production
company
Cheers Studio Ltd.
Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd.
Zhujiang Film&Media Corp. Ltd.
Distributed by Newport Entertainment Co. Ltd.
Release dates
  • 11 April 2014 (2014-04-11) (China)
  • 8 May 2014 (2014-05-08) (Hong Kong)
Running time
 101 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Box office US$4,678,632[1]

Delete My Love (Chinese: Delete愛人) is a 2014 Hong Kong romantic comedy film directed and written by Patrick Kong and starring Wong Cho-lam, Ivana Wong and Michael Hui.

Plot

So Po-wing or So Boring as everyone calls him doesn't have much going for him, career and personally. He has a boss from hell, toxic co-workers that steal his ideas and sabotage him, an office that doubles as the company storage room and an incompetent assistant that lets his co-workers steal his ideas just because they flirt with her. At home he has a younger sister that is a compulsive gambler and a mother that tries to trick him into selling the home his deceased grandfather left him. The only bright spot in his life is his ditsy girlfriend Bobo who always thinks she is dying and his loyal friend Wah Dee who tries to cheer him up but ends up making matters worse.

On his birthday his boss fires him for being an under-performing worker. So Boring accidentally kills his boss when trying to beg for his job. While trying to hide the body he receives a strange text on his phone that asks him "If you can delete those you don't like what would it be?", not caring he deletes the text while making the wish that he only wanted a nice boss. When he heads back to the office he finds out that his boss has changed to a super nice guy who lets his employee party and take unlimited extended paid vacation days. His "deleted to" boss is so nice that he lets So Boring run his company.

Realizing his new-found powers he soon starts deleting those that annoys him. His chubby assistant to a slim girl, dysfunctional mother and sister to a proper mother that cooks and a well behaved sister, best friend to a pirated Iron Man Tony Stark and Bobo's childhood friend who wants to marry her to a middle age men with a heavy country accent. He finally realizes he has gone too far when he accidentally deletes Bobo to a slutty blossomy mainland girl who exaggerates when she talks. Soon after, he starts to see the negative side of the "deleted to" versions of each individual when his "deleted to" boss frames him when needing to fire all the employees, mother only cooks one dish over and over again, girlfriend sexually harasses his best friend and a best friend that wants a homosexual relationship with him.

When confronting his "deleted to" boss for framing him he makes a wish for his original boss to come back, which does bring his original boss back. His original boss questions how he knows how to delete people since he had also deleted his original family years ago. As the two think on how to bring their original love ones back his boss's "deleted to" wife overhears their conversation and informs her "deleted to" son and daughter. His boss's "deleted to" family not wanting to change back decides to kill So Boring and his boss. The two escape death and brings his boss's retro style computer to be fixed so they can find out how to bring their original loved ones back, but it seems in order to bring them back they have to give up everything.[2]

Cast

Trivia

Reception

The film has grossed ¥12.3 million (US$1,980,000) in China.[3] The film grossed HK$1.23 million (US$158,000) on the opening weekend in Hong Kong.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "DELETE LOVERS". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
  2. ↑ lovehkfilm review. Retrieved 8-7-2014
  3. ↑ Kevin Ma (15 April 2014). "Midnight After clocks huge HK opening". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Kevin Ma (13 May 2014). "Spider-man swings to top of China box office". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

External links

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