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12 Storeys (1997)
Director: Eric Khoo
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The benign spirit of Kieslowski hovers over Khoo's second feature, which picks up where Mee Pok Man left off with more funny/sad accounts of screwed-up lives in a typical Singaporean government-housing block. Khoo focuses on the inhabitants of three apartments: an overweight single woman who can't get her late mother's cruel nagging out of her head, a working-class slob put through the mill by his brought-from-China wife, and a very uptight guy who crashes into the discovery that his younger sister has a sex life. As a social satire of Lee Kuan-Yew's nanny state, this is witty and sophisticated stuff. As an anthology of lives blighted by self-delusion and peer-group pressure, it's so truthful it hurts.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Eric Khoo
Producer: Brian Hong
Cast: Jack Neo, Chuan Yi-Fong, Koh Boon-Pin, Lucilla Teoh, Lum May-Yee, Ritz Lim full cast
Duration: 107 mins
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