# Soursweet > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Soursweet > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Soursweet.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soursweet > Source revision: 1339273845 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Soursweet" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) 1988 film Soursweet Directed by Mike Newell Screenplay by Ian McEwan Based on Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo Produced by Roger Randall-Cutler Starring Sylvia Chang Danny Dun Cinematography Michael Garfath Edited by Mick Audsley Music by Richard Hartley Distributed by Curzon Release date 1988 (1988) (UK) Running time 110 minutes Language English ***Soursweet*** is a 1988 British film directed by [Mike Newell](/source/Mike_Newell_(director)). The screenplay was written by [Ian McEwan](/source/Ian_McEwan) from the 1982 novel *[Sour Sweet](/source/Sour_Sweet)* by [Timothy Mo](/source/Timothy_Mo). ## Plot The story, set in the 1960s, is a comedy drama about a young Hong Kong Chinese couple who emigrate to England and start a family. Initially Chen works long hours in a Chinese restaurant while his wife Lily looks after their baby, dreaming of the day when they can open their own business. When Chen becomes indebted to [Triads](/source/Triad_(organized_crime)) through gambling he decides it is time for his family to go it alone. ## Cast - [Sylvia Chang](/source/Sylvia_Chang) as Lily - [Danny Dun](/source/Danny_Dun) as Chen - [Jodi Long](/source/Jodi_Long) as Mui - [Soon Tek-Oh](/source/Soon_Tek-Oh) as 'Red' Cudgel - [Jim Carter](/source/Jim_Carter_(actor)) as Mr. Constantinides - William Chow as White Paper Fan - Shih Chieh King as Night Brother ## Honours - Golden Hugo (Best Feature Film) - Chicago International Film Festival (**nominated**)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## References ## External links - [*Soursweet*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096146/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Mike Newell Feature films The Awakening (1980) Bad Blood (1981) Dance with a Stranger (1985) The Good Father (1985) Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) Soursweet (1988) Enchanted April (1991) Into the West (1992) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) Donnie Brasco (1997) Pushing Tin (1999) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Great Expectations (2012) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) My Duchess (TBA) Television Of the Fields, Lately (1976) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) Birth of a Nation (1983) Blood Feud (1983) v t e Works by Ian McEwan Novels The Cement Garden (1978) The Comfort of Strangers (1981) The Child in Time (1987) The Innocent (1990) Black Dogs (1992) Enduring Love (1997) Amsterdam (1998) Atonement (2001) Saturday (2005) On Chesil Beach (2007) Solar (2010) Sweet Tooth (2012) The Children Act (2014) Nutshell (2016) Machines Like Me (2019) The Cockroach (2019) Lessons (2022) What We Can Know (2025) Story collections First Love, Last Rites (1975) In Between the Sheets (1978) Children's novels Rose Blanche (1985) The Daydreamer (1994) Television plays Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration (1976) The Imitation Game (1980) Solid Geometry (2002) Screenplays The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) Soursweet (1988) The Good Son (1993) The Innocent (1993) On Chesil Beach (2017) The Children Act (2017) This article about a 1980s comedy-drama film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1980s-comedy-drama-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1980s-comedy-drama-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1980s-comedy-drama-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Soursweet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soursweet) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soursweet?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.