It Had To Be You

6.7 (5 votes)• 2005• 93m•Released

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Restaurant supervisor Jill (Karena Lam) has a handsome boyfriend Chi On (Wu Bing), but she is just his backup girlfriend. She knows she is the other girl, but her hope for being his one and only has never ceased until he changes his formal girlfriend once again. All her anger goes to her co-worker Jack (Ekin Cheng), who appears to be a womanizer but indeed shares a similar unfortunate romantic situation of being the backup boyfriend of an airhostess. Knowing that both are victims in romantic relationships, Jack and Jill no longer spar with each other and a liking between them start to develop

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Production Details

Languages: Cantonese

Director: Andrew Loo, Maurice Li

Starring Cast: Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Eric Tsang Chi-Wai, Karena Lam Kar-Yan, Nicola Cheung Sun-Yuet, Bobo Chan Man-Yuen, Hu Bing

Cast

Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin

Jack

Eric Tsang Chi-Wai

Jason

Karena Lam Kar-Yan

Jill

Nicola Cheung Sun-Yuet

Moon

Bobo Chan Man-Yuen

Grace

Hu Bing

Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung

Fire Lee Ka-Wing

Lu Jie

Kristal Tin Yui-Nei

Hiro Hayama

Benz Hui Siu-Hung

Lo Meng

Kiki Sheung

Chin Ka-Lok

Leung Ho-Ming

Taxi Driver

Benjamin Yuen Wai-Ho

Pauline Yeung Yung-Lin

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