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What Women Want is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama released in USA on 4 february 2011 with Andy Lau
What Women Want (2011)
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Add to a movie listWhat Women Want is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic comedy film remake of the 2000 American film of the same name. The film stars Andy Lau and Gong Li. What Women Want was released in China on the 3 February 2011, the first day Chinese New Year.
The plot is strongly based on the original Hollywood version, with some adaptations to 2010s China. 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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Dans une agence de publicité de Pékin, Sun Zigang (Andy Lau), un directeur artistique, est en rivalité avec une nouvelle venue, Li Yilong (Gong Li). Il acquiert malgré lui la capacité d'entendre les pensées des femmes à la suite d'un accident.Actors
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