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Taxi! Taxi! is a Singapourien film of genre Drama with Gurmit Singh
Taxi! Taxi! (2013)
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Add to a movie listTaxi! Taxi! (simplified Chinese: 德士当家; traditional Chinese: 德士當家; pinyin: dé shì dāngjiā) is a 2013 Singaporean comedy film based on the 2010 work Diary Of A Taxi Driver by Cai Mingjie, said to be "Singapore's most well-educated taxi-driver". Directed by Kelvin Sng and produced by Chan Pui Yin for SIMF Management, the film stars Mark Lee, Gurmit Singh and YouTube personality Chua Jin Sen, better known by his online handle "Dr. Jia Jia". It is Chua's professional film debut. The film follows two fellow taxi-drivers' (Lee and Singh) quest for self-discovery. Distributed by Golden Village Pictures, the film was commercially released in Singapore on January 3, 2013 and slated for a January 24, 2013 release in Malaysia.
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In the prelude of the movie, PhD microbiologist Professor Chua See Kiat (Gurmit Singh) was hanging out on a rooftop when a cab-driver named Ah Tau (Mark Lee) mistaken him for him attempting suicide. This made Ah Tau to receive a fine for illegal parking.Actors
Gurmit Singh
(Professor Chua See Kiat, a retrenched microbiologist)
Mark Lee
(Lee Ah Tau)
Chua En Lai
(a policeman)
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