Honey Money Phony

2024

ComedyRomance

Lin Qinglang, a working girl, made a sweet promise overnight to turn into a huge debt of 201314 yuan. How can she face it with a smile on the long journey of repaying money? Can the life trajectory of the scammer Ouyang Hui, who has countless criminal records, be changed by meeting her?

Rating

6.1
11 votes

Popularity

2.3104

Origin & Countries

CN | zh | China

Production

Maoyan Entertainment,Tianjin Maoyan Weiying Culture Media,Shanghai Ruyi Film & TV Production,上海他城影业有限公司,China Film Creative

Runtime

115 min.

Budget (M$)

61.1 / 0ROI Infinity%

Status

Released

Release: 12/20/2024

Credits

Honey Money Phony

Su BiaoDirector

Honey Money Phony

Jin ChenLin Qinglang

Honey Money Phony

Sunny SunOuyang Hui

Honey Money Phony

Li XueqinDong Xiaohui

Honey Money Phony

Wang HaoZhang Zijun

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

1/9/2025

7 / 10

"Lin Qinglang" (Jin Chen) is on the phone to a man who is telling her that she must transfer ¥3000 or else her account will be shut down. As luck would have it, she's outside a branch of her bank so takes the call inside and quickly identifies a scammer. Rather than report him to the authorities, or shame him on social media, she makes him a proposition. He's not the first to have tried to con this rather naive woman out out of her money. Her ex-boyfriend managed to get ¥200,000 (about £22,000) from her before dumping her. If he can help her get that cash back, she will call it quits. "Ouyang Hui" (Sunny Sun) is quite a charming, charismatic young man and despite their mutual mistrust, they spend some time evaluating their pretty-boy mark "Zhang Zijun" (Wang Hao) - who has already moved onto to his next vulnerable victim. Their target runs a travel agency and so together with his wily uncle (David Wang) and her actress pal "Dong Xiaohui" (Li Xueqin) the pair set about orchestrating a complex sting operation to recoup her money and teach this man a lesson he will never forget. It's quite good fun this, and though maybe a little contrived it allows the engaging Sunny Sun to deliver a mischievous character that, even though fairly venal, proves to be quite a likeable rogue. The quickly paced scenarios are helped along by a cheery score, a few pop songs and, for a change, we don't use a constant stream of mobile phone texts to convey chunks of the dialogue. Of course, there's a burgeoning romance here but with some fun in a Ferrari, a disaster-prone holiday maker and some comedy trust issues, I found it quite an entertainingly daft caper.

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