Cj7 -2008-2008 Jun 2026
| Actor | Role | Trivia | |-------|------|--------| | | Ti (Father) | Chow initially planned to play Dicky but switched to the father role after de-aging tests failed. | | Xu Jiao | Dicky Chow | Xu Jiao was 9 years old and had never acted before. Chow chose her from 3,000 children in Ningbo. She later became a celebrated actress ( The Mermaid , League of Gods ). | | CJ7 (Voice) | The Alien | Voiced by Chow himself using sped-up gibberish, similar to Gollum’s vocal processing. | | Lin Zi-cong | Bully (Johnny) | Lin’s father was a construction worker on the film’s set. Chow cast him on the spot. |
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Critics from Roger Ebert noted the film's shift toward a more subdued, family-oriented message about poverty, education, and father-son bonds, often drawing comparisons to Steven Spielberg's E.T. . | Actor | Role | Trivia | |-------|------|--------|
The film centers on Ti (Stephen Chow), an impoverished, widowed construction worker living in a ramshackle hut in Hong Kong. He is determined to provide a better future for his young son, Dicky (Xu Jiao, in a breakout gender-bending performance). Despite his best efforts, Ti can only afford secondhand goods and meals of leftover vegetables, leading to Dicky being bullied at his elite private school by the wealthy, snobbish class monitor. She later became a celebrated actress ( The
The story follows (Stephen Chow), a struggling widower and construction worker who lives in a dilapidated shack with his young son, Dicky . Despite their extreme poverty, Ti is determined to send Dicky to an elite private school to ensure a better future.
If you haven’t seen it since 2008, watch it again—not for the laughs, but for the scene where a cheap green alien drags a dead construction worker back to life, just so a little boy won’t be alone. That is pure, irrational, beautiful cinema.
