A Reserve Bride

As a young director, Wong Yiu's talent was quickly noticed by Tang Bik-wan's husband Lui Wai-chau (aka Lui Kei) and directed many films with Tang as the lead actress. The two had made a number of box office hit comedies together, including A Reserve Bride. A series of misunderstandings lay the foundation of the story: Lee (Woo Fung) and Wong (Tang Bik-wan) are a loving couple while Wong finds out she has only two more months to live after a health check. Scheming with her mother (Tam Lan-hing), Wong set out to find the nurse So (Hung Hung) to be the back-up bride to look after her family. She tries to fix So and Lee up and meanwhile pretends to have an affair with her friend Judy (Lee Hong-kum) who is disguised as a man, only to find out later that she has misread the report! Tang put on a breakthrough performance by playing the neurotic young wife flirting with cross-dressed Lee Hong-kum. The harmonic mother and daughter depicted by Tang and Tam Lan-hing who share a long history of being on-screen bickering duo was also unprecedented.

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