Year In, Year Out

The great director Zhu Shilin is renowned for his urban family dramas. Year In, Year Out follows a family through its disputes and reconciliation, generating entertainment while challenging family values. The elder brother of the Ho family becomes wealthy with help from the parents of his wife. But his wife starts bossing everyone around, plunging the household into increasingly intense chaos. The mother tries to live gingerly with her overbearing daughter-in-law but the younger brother finally has enough and moves out with his wife and kids. Can a broken family be repaired? Michael Lai plays the younger brother's son, a minor role that is nonetheless pivotal to the happy ending of this melodrama. At the tender age of just eight or nine, Lai brought to life a complicated character, a forbearing child learning to deal with life's inequalities. His eventual outburst of emotions brings the family back together.

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