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Chinese | 心花路放 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Xīn Huā Lù Fàng |
Directed by | Ning Hao |
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Cinematography | Song Xiaofei |
Edited by | Du Yuan |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | China |
Language | Mandarin |
Box office | US$195,300,000[1] |
Breakup Buddies is a 2014 Chinese romantic comedy and road film directed by Ning Hao.[2][3] It stars Huang Bo and Xu Zheng as buddies on a wild 3,000-kilometre cross-country journey from Beijing to Dali City (via Zhangjiajie).
The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2014,[4] and was released domestically on September 30, 2014. It grossed over $195 million to become one of the highest-grossing films in China.
Womanizer Hao Yi (Xu Zheng) takes his best friend Geng Hao (Huang Bo) on a road trip to Dali City in Yunnan — China's unofficial capital of one-night stands — to help him recover from a devastating divorce. Years before, Kang Xiaoyu (Yuan Quan) had traversed the same route to Dali where she met her future husband.
Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave Breakup Buddies a 7 out of 10, calling it "Ning Hao's maturest film so far" and praising the performances as "strong".[5]
The film grossed ¥1.16971 billion at the Chinese box office[6] and a total of US$195.3 million internationally.[1] The Guardian's Phil Hoad mentioning the film as one of "a few, giant, isolated local hits".[7]