Unlucky Plaza (2014)
Sh*t hits the fan in the world's safest city
The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in dire straits fatefully intertwine in this nail-biting thriller from Singapore that is based, almost unbelievably, on a true story.
Casting
- Epy Quizon — Onassis Hernandez
- Adrian Pang — Sky / Terence Chia
- Judee Tan — Michelle Chan
- Shane Mardjuki — Pastor Tong Wen
- Guo Liang — Baby Bear
- Janice Koh Yu-Mei — Cindy
- Pamela Oei — Mrs. Heng
- Andrew Lua — Ping
- Christian Wong — Popoy
- Osman Sulaiman — Inspector Azman
- Anita Kapoor — Herself
- Jennifer Ebron — Ruby
Interesting facts
Unlucky Plaza is a 2014 Singaporean black comedy thriller film written and directed by Ken Kwek. It stars Epy Quizon as a Filipino immigrant to Singapore who takes hostages after falling for a scam. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in Singapore on 16 April 2015. The story is told in a series of flashbacks from the point of view of a talk show that has reunited the captor and his former hostages.
Production
The film was based on reports of rental scams that were popular on immigrants.
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