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      • City Sharks is a 2003 Singaporean comedy road film directed by Esan Sivalingam, starring Sheikh Haikel, Nicholas Lee and Hans Isaac. The film was shot from October 2001 to January 2002, during which a monsoon destroyed a key location. Sivalingam filed two lawsuits against Malaysian production house Gambar Tanah Licin for refusing to release the film. The first lawsuit, which was quickly settled out of court, was for the production house refusing to release the film. The second lawsuit, which ended in January 2003 and resulted in him being awarded $310,000, was for financial mismanagement.


      Cast


      Sheikh Haikel as Jeff
      Nicholas Lee as Mike Wong
      Hans Isaac as Chief
      Koh Chieng Mun as Betty
      Corinne Adrienne as Sherry
      Lim Kay Tong as Samuel
      Moses Lim as Henry Seow
      Marcus Chin as Ang
      Chan Chee Wai as Hock
      Leslie Low as Hock (voice)
      Afdlin Shauki as Zul
      Michelle Saram as Deanna
      Adam Corrie as Jimmy
      Keagan Kang as Al/Alex
      Vernetta Lopez as Bag Woman
      Kher Cheng Guan as Big Boss
      Adrian Pang as Big Boss (voice)
      Zaibo as Farmer


      Release


      The film premiered at the Beach Road cineplex on 17 March 2003. It opened in theatres on 27 March.


      Reception


      Jeanmarie Tan of The New Paper rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, "At turns funny, poignant and dealing with feel-good themes of family and belonging, City Sharks is one gamble that does pay off."
      Clarissa Oon of The Straits Times rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote that Farley's "evocative" cinematography and Richmond's "eclectic" and "pulsating" soundtrack "lifts the film above other formulaic homegrown English-language comedies like One Leg Kicking and Chicken Rice War", and praised the performances of Sheikh, Lee, Isaac, Lim, Koh and Kang.
      Yong Shu Chiang of Today wrote that while the film "lacks bite in its dialogue, has so-so acting and could have benefited from a more polished script", it "has its moments".


      References




      External links


      City Sharks at IMDb

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