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Breakup Buddies

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Breakup Buddies
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Breakup Buddies is a 2014 Chinese romantic comedy and road film directed by Ning Hao.[2] It stars Huang Bo and Xu Zheng as buddies on a wild 3,000-kilometre cross-country journey from Beijing to Dali City (via Zhangjiajie).

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The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2014,[3] and was released domestically on September 30, 2014. It grossed over $195 million to become one of the highest-grossing films in China.

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Plot

Womanizer Hao Yi (Xu Zheng) takes his best friend Geng Hao (Huang Bo) on a road trip to Dali City in Yunnan — China's unofficial capital of one-night stands — to help him recover from a devastating divorce. Years before, Kang Xiaoyu (Yuan Quan) had traversed the same route to Dali where she met her future husband.

Cast

  • Huang Bo as Geng Hao
  • Xu Zheng as Hao Yi
  • Yuan Quan as Kang Xiaoyu
  • Zhou Dongyu as Zhou Lijuan, a.k.a. "Christina"
  • Tao Hui as Avatar girl
  • Yue Xiaojun as an innkeeper
  • Shen Teng as a bar owner
  • Zhang Li as a Si Qing
  • Jiao Junyan as Xiao Bei
  • Ma Su as Shasha
  • Liu Meihan
  • Xiong Naijin as Kang Xiaoyu's best friend
  • Liu Yiwei as a cop
  • Wang Yanhui as a crime boss
  • Lei Jiayin as a gangster
  • Yong Mengting as a cosplay girl
  • Liang Hao as Li Maomao, Zhou Lijuan's boyfriend
  • Guo Tao as Kang Xiaoyu's attorney (cameo)
  • Li Chen as Kang Xiaoyu's new lover (cameo)
  • Xia Yu as Kang Xiaoyu's ex (cameo)
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Review

Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave Breakup Buddies a 7 out of 10, calling it "Ning Hao's maturest film so far" and praising the performances as "strong".[4]

Box office

The film grossed ¥1.16971 billion at the Chinese box office[5] and a total of US$195.3 million internationally.[1] The Guardian's Phil Hoad mentioning the film as one of "a few, giant, isolated local hits".[6]

References

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