What Women Want (2011 film)

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What Women Want
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Traditional Chinese 我知女人心
Simplified Chinese 我知女人心
Hanyu Pinyin Wǒ Zhī Nǚ Rén Xīn
Jyutping Ngo2 Zi1 Neoi5 Jan2 Sam1
Directed byChen Daming
Screenplay byChen Daming
Based on What Women Want
by
Produced byChen Daming
Don Yu
Starring Andy Lau
Gong Li
CinematographyMax Wang
Edited by Nelson Quan
Music byChristoper O'Young
Production
companies
Beijing Bona Film and Cultural Communication Co., Ltd
China Film Group Corporation
DMG Entertainment Group
Emperor Motion Pictures
Bona Entertainment Company Limited
Focus Film Limited
Distributed by Beijing Polybona Film Distribution Co. Ltd. (China)
Emperor Motion Pictures
Distribution Workshop (Hong Kong)
Release dates
  • 3 February 2011 (2011-02-03)(China)
  • 17 February 2011 (2011-02-17)(Hong Kong)
Running time
115 minutes [1]
CountriesChina
Hong Kong [1]
LanguagesMandarin
English
BudgetUS$5 million
Box officeUS$11.8 million [2]

What Women Want is a 2011 romantic comedy film remake of the 2000 American film of the same name. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film stars Andy Lau and Gong Li. What Women Want was released in China on 3 February 2011, the first day of Chinese New Year.

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The plot is a very close remake of the American version with some minor changes. The plot takes place mostly in an advertising company in Beijing, in which Lau plays a slick ad agency creative director who gets acquainted with his new talented competition, played by Gong. He is helped when he gets the ability to hear women's thoughts due to a freak accident.

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References

  1. 1 2 "What Women Want (我知女人心) - Film Business Asia".
  2. "What Women Want". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 3 November 2022.