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Fight Back to School

1991 · 100 min

A silly, fast-paced undercover caper that mixes schoolyard hijinks with slapstick action and a sweet crush.

Overview
Chow Sing Sing is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit. But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver.

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • crime
  • justice
  • love
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror0
Humour8
Realism4
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
action, comedy, crime, mystery
Directed by
Gordon Chan
Written by
Gordon Chan, Barry Wong Ping-yiu
Starring
Stephen Chow, Richard Ng Man-tat, Sharla Cheung Man, Roy Cheung Yiu-yeung, Barry Wong Ping-yiu, Karel Wong Chi-yeung, Gabriel Wong Yat-shan, Paul Chun Pui
Cinematography
Cheng Siu-Keung
Runtime
100 min
Country
Hong Kong
Languages
Cantonese

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