Money No Enough

Money No Enough (1998)

"Money No Enough" is about three friends of different backgrounds who end up facing the same problem of surviving in a cash-strapped society where lack of money can bring endless problems. The film stars Chew Wah Keong (Jack Neo), who is white collar but a spend thrift, Ong (Mark Lee), a contractor, and Hui (Henry Thia), a coffee shop waiter who has a crush on his customer...

Date of release
1998-05-07
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Tay Teck Lock
Collection
Money No Enough Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Money No Enough is a 1998 Singaporean comedy film written by Jack Neo, directed by Tay Teck Lock, and produced by JSP films. The movie stars Neo, Mark Lee and Henry Thia as three close and best friends who start a car polishing business together to resolve their financial problems. Released in cinemas on 7 May 1998, the film received mixed reviews from critics but earned over S$5.8 million and was the all-time highest-grossing Singaporean film until 2012. Its success helped revive the Singaporean film industry and pave the way for the emergence of other Singaporean cultural phenomena.

Production

In the 1990s, Neo, Lee and Thia became well known in Singapore for their performances in the TCS Channel 8 sketch comedy variety show known as Comedy Night/Comedy Nite (Simplified Chinese: 搞笑行动, Wade-Giles: Kao hsiao hsin tung), notably in the Liang Po Po and Liang Xi Mei sketches. Neo then acted in the 1997 Eric Khoo film 12 Storeys, and saw potential in the then virtually nonexistent local film industry.

This film was produced by JSP Films on a budget of S$850,000. The production crew included Deri Ng as first assistant director, J.P. Tan as film producer, Kamis as cinematographer, A. Supranamian as film editor, Anthony Ng as art director and Abdul Shukar Mohd as sound designer. Filming was plagued by financial problems, such as poor quality shooting equipment.

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