The Dream Factory (film)

The Dream Factory
The Dream Factory
	Film poster
Directed by	Feng Xiaogang
Written by	Feng Xiaogang; Wang Gang
Based on	Ni bushi yige suren (You're No Common Person); by Wang Shuo
Produced by	Lu Guoqiang
Edited by	Zhou Ying
Production; companies	Beijing Forbidden City Film; Beijing Film Studio;
Release date	20 December 1997;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
Budget	6 million yuan (830 thousand US dollars)
Box office	36 million yuan

The Dream Factory (Chinese: 甲方乙方; pinyin: Jiǎfāng Yǐfāng; lit. 'Party A', 'Party B') is a 1997 Chinese comedy film directed by Feng Xiaogang. It was one of the first notable and successful he sui pian movies (Chinese New Year films) made in mainland China.^[1] It was written by Feng Xiaogang and Wang Gang, adapting a Wang Shuo novel.

Plot

Four friends in Beijing—three men and a woman—start a company which specializes in fulfilling their clients' dreams. Enacting their wildest fantasies, they encounter many oddball clients along the way.

References

1 2 Yomi Braester (2010), Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract, Duke University Press, p. 287, ISBN 978-0822392750
1 2 3 Yuwu Song (2013), Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China, McFarland, p. 86, ISBN 978-0786435821

External links

The Dream Factory at IMDb
The Dream Factory at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase

[ptcr-1] 1 2 Yomi Braester (2010), Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract, Duke University Press, p. 287, ISBN 978-0822392750

[bd-2] 1 2 3 Yuwu Song (2013), Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China, McFarland, p. 86, ISBN 978-0786435821

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