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September 9 - 16, 1999

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That's The Way I Like It

Glen Goei's whimsical romantic comedy set around the disco era in Singapore offers plenty of humor even if the plot is a bit of the old one-two step. Hock (Adrian Pang) is a grocery-store stock clerk who dreams of a souped-up motorcycle and becoming the next Bruce Lee. After seeing Saturday Night Fever and learning of a disco dance contest that offers enough prize money to buy his bike, Hock starts walking the walk, donning the era's cheesy garb, and conversing with his own private Travolta. Of course there's a love interest, Julie (Annabelle Francis), the sensual heartthrob down at the dance school, plus a disco bully and, waiting in the wings, Hock's old flame Mei (a delightfully effervescent Medaline Tan). That's The Way I Like It attempts to do for disco what Strictly Ballroom and Shall We Dance did for their respective steps, but where those films danced with a soulful heart, this one ends up with two left feet. Screens at the Copley Place Saturday, September 11 at 7:45 and 10:10 p.m. and Sunday, September 12 at 12:45, 3, and 5 p.m.

-- Tom Meek


Film Festival Feature Films

| The Minus Man | The Tavern | Black Eyed Dog | The Last September | A Wake in Providence | Man of the Century | Pups | Dreaming of Joseph Leeds | Wisdom of Crocodiles | That's The Way I Like It | American Beauty | Mifune | Black Cat, White Cat | Hit and Runway | All the LIttle Animals | Me Myself I | The Alchemist and the Virgin | Trash | Old Man River | The Poet and the Con | Snow Falling on Cedars | Guinevere | East is East | American Movie | Rivers of Babylon | Two Ninas | Rats | Keepers of the Frame | The Runner |


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