{{Short description|2014 Hong Kong film by Cheuk Wan-chi}} {{Use Hong Kong English|date=April 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Temporary Family | image = Temporary Family poster.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = [[Cheuk Wan-chi]] | producer = [[William Kong]]<br />[[Nansun Shi]]<br />[[Winnie Yu]]<br />Ivy Ho | writer = | screenplay = | story = | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | narrator = | starring = [[Nick Cheung]]<br />[[Sammi Cheng]]<br />[[Angelababy]]<br />[[Oho Ou]] | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Edko Films | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=yes|2014|8|21}} | runtime = 109 minutes | country = Hong Kong | language = Cantonese | budget = | gross = US$18,936,753<ref name="bo">{{cite web |url= https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?id=_fTEMPORARYFAMILY01&country=HK&wk=2014W41&id=_fTEMPORARYFAMILY01&p=.htm|title= TEMPORARY FAMILY|accessdate= 2014-10-29|work= [[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> }}
'''''Temporary Family''''' (失戀急讓) is a 2014 Hong Kong [[comedy film]].<ref name="fba">{{cite web|url= http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/the-four-finale-tops-china-box-office|title= The Four finale tops China box office|author= Kevin Ma|date= 26 August 2014|accessdate= 26 August 2014|work= [[Film Business Asia]]|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140826214311/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/the-four-finale-tops-china-box-office|archivedate= 26 August 2014|df= dmy-all}}</ref>
==Plot== Hong Siu Long proposes to his girlfriend, but is rebuffed, and given an ultimatum that means he must double his fortune in one year or break up. As he contemplates as to how to do this Hong, a realtor, is engaged by a client wanting a quick sale of a luxury apartment, and willing to accept a below market price bid. Together with Charlotte, a would be client who just happened to be in the office, his colleague Very Wong, and his step-daughter Lui Yuen Ping, Hong decides to buy the apartment as a speculative venture. The four combine their assets for the deposit and given the ever rising property prices expect to quickly sell the apartment for a profit.
However, to their dismay, just as they complete the purchase, the Hong Kong government introduces measures to slow the property bubble, especially measures to prevent speculation by wealthy mainland Chinese seeking to move their capital offshore. What seemed like a surefire bet has now become a white elephant, and the four are stretched to keep up the mortgage repayments. To cut costs all four move in together becoming a temporary family.
In their attempts to sell the apartment the four become closer and come to care for each other. Becoming more than just unwilling housemates, Charlotte prevents Lui from prostituting herself, and when it is revealed that the apartment was the marital home of Charlotte and her ex-husband, Lui votes alongside Charlotte to prevent the sale of the apartment and saves Charlotte from being humiliated by her ex-husbands new girlfriend; all rally around Hong when he is made redundant and dumped by his girlfriend.
With their cash reserve eaten away by mortgage repayments, and the bank on the verge of foreclosing the four have one last chance to sell the apartment for a profit and not lose everything.
==Cast== *[[Nick Cheung]] as Hong Siu Long (項少龍) ::Realtor, has given up his principles to get ahead in the Hong Kong realty business *[[Sammi Cheng]] as Charlotte Fung (馮沙律) ::Divorcee, who has only ever been a homemaker *[[Angelababy]] as Lui Yuen Ping (呂婉娉) ::Courier, Hong Siu Long's stepdaughter *[[Oho Ou]] as Very Wong (黃初) ::Realtor, Hong Siu Long's protege, son of a wealthy father wanting to make his own way in the world *[[Dayo Wong]] as Tsui Chi Chung (徐子聰) ::Charlotte's ex-husband, Yeung Lin's boyfriend *[[Jiang Wu]] as Mr. Shek (石先生) ::Mainland Chinese tycoon *[[Myolie Wu]] as Cheung Yee (蔣儀) ::Air hostess, Hong Siu Long's girlfriend *[[Sui He]] as Yeung Lin (楊蓮) ::Daughter of a wealthy gallery owner, Tsui Chi Chung's meal ticket
===Cameo appearances=== *[[Jacky Cheung]] as George (佐治) ::Solicitor *[[Ivana Wong]] as Mrs. Chan ::"Friend" of Charlotte and her husband, Charlotte's social rival *[[Fruit Chan]] as neighborhood tyrant *[[Regina Ip|Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee]], as Ip Lau Suk Chi (葉劉淑之) ::Hong Kong [[Mid-levels]] [[District Councils of Hong Kong|District Councillor]] *[[Eric Kot]] as gynecologist *[[Yu Menglong]]
==Reception== It has grossed [[Hong Kong dollar|HK$]]16,535,069 in Hong Kong and [[Chinese yuan|¥]]100,436,001 in China.<ref name="bo"/>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|3830812}}
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