| Sweet Alibis | |||||||||||
| Director: | Lien Yi-chi | ||||||||||
| Starring: | Alec Su Ariel Lin Matt Wu Lei Hong Lang Tsu-yun Ken Lin Chu Chih-ying Austin Lin Kao Meng-chieh | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Randy Che | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 112 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | Taiwan | ||||||||||
| Language: | Mandarin Taiwanese | ||||||||||
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Sweet Alibis is a 2014 Taiwanese comedy film starring Alec Su as a cowardly veteran cop and Ariel Lin as an overzealous rookie. The film follows the pair who team up to solve crimes together in Kaohsiung.
Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy's accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly digs up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.
It was the number-one film in Taiwan box office for a week in January 2014,[1] but overall grossing was disappointing with only NT$ 20.6 million (roughly $0.6 million) despite generally positive reviews.[2] It was successful in the Chinese box office in March 2014, ranking only behind 2 Taiwanese films — You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011) and (2012) — in first-week grossing.[3] It grossed ¥36.6 million (roughly $6 million) in mainland China.[4]
There are in-jokes in the film referencing characters from the TV series In Time with You (2011) starring Ariel Lin and Romance in the Rain (2001) starring Alec Su and Ruby Lin.