City Sharks

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City Sharks
Directed by Esan Sivalingam
Written byEsan Sivalingam
Starring
CinematographyJamal J. Farley
Edited byBin Li
Music byDon Richmond
Production
companies
Hoods Inc. Productions
Nexus Net
Release date
  • 27 March 2003 (2003-03-27)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySingapore
LanguageEnglish
Budget$650,000

City Sharks is a 2003 Singaporean comedy road film directed by Esan Sivalingam, starring Sheikh Haikel, Nicholas Lee and Hans Isaac. The film was shot from October 2001 to January 2002, during which a monsoon destroyed a key location. [1] Sivalingam filed two lawsuits against Malaysian production house Gambar Tanah Licin for refusing to release the film. The first lawsuit, which was quickly settled out of court, was for the production house refusing to release the film. The second lawsuit, which ended in January 2003 and resulted in him being awarded $310,000, was for financial mismanagement. [2]

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Cast

Release

The film premiered at the Beach Road cineplex on 17 March 2003. [3] It opened in theatres on 27 March. [4]

Reception

Jeanmarie Tan of The New Paper rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, "At turns funny, poignant and dealing with feel-good themes of family and belonging, City Sharks is one gamble that does pay off." [5]

Clarissa Oon of The Straits Times rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote that Farley's "evocative" cinematography and Richmond's "eclectic" and "pulsating" soundtrack "lifts the film above other formulaic homegrown English-language comedies like One Leg Kicking and Chicken Rice War", and praised the performances of Sheikh, Lee, Isaac, Lim, Koh and Kang. [4]

Yong Shu Chiang of Today wrote that while the film "lacks bite in its dialogue, has so-so acting and could have benefited from a more polished script", it "has its moments". [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Tan, Jeanmarie (15 March 2003). "Hard life, City Shark". The New Paper . Singapore.
  2. ↑ "City Sharks swim into rough waters". The Straits Times . Singapore. 15 February 2003.
  3. ↑ "Bite into it". The Straits Times . Singapore. 20 March 2003.
  4. 1 2 Oon, Clarissa (26 March 2003). "Sharks, has the movie ended?". The Straits Times . Singapore.
  5. ↑ Tan, Jeanmarie (23 March 2003). "Forgive the bumps : This local road movie zips along". The New Paper . Singapore.
  6. ↑ Yong, Shu Chiang (27 March 2003). "Pay up or else ..." Today . Singapore. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
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