| The Midas Touch | |||||||||||||||
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| Director: | Andrew Fung | ||||||||||||||
| Producer: | Chan Hing-ka | ||||||||||||||
| Screenplay: | Andrew Fung Chan Hing-ka Ho Miu-kei Ng Wing-san | ||||||||||||||
| Story: | Chan Hing-ka | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Chapman To Charlene Choi | ||||||||||||||
| Music: | Eric Kwok Ted Lo | ||||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Lam Chi-kin | ||||||||||||||
| Editing: | Yau Chi-wai | ||||||||||||||
| Studio: | Emperor Motion Pictures Emperor Film Distribution (Beijing) Emperor (Beijing) Culture Development Letv Pictures | ||||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Emperor Motion Pictures UA Films | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||||
| Budget: | HK$20 million [1] | ||||||||||||||
The Midas Touch is a 2013 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Andrew Fung and starring Chapman To and Charlene Choi as talent managers.
Successful debt collector Chiu takes pity on a group of wannabe pop starlets when he goes to collect from the agency they are signed with. Naively thinking that he can do a better job in launching their careers, Chiu takes over the company in lieu of the debt but starts to realize he may have overextended himself. Hoping that things might change with a strategic approach, he hires experienced talent manager Suen but with money running low and the company on the brink of bankruptcy, a dejected Chiu is soon ready to admit that his Midas touch has run out until a Korean showbiz entity expresses interest in the girls.
Now Chiu has to decide whether he is willing to say goodbye to his investment and, more importantly, to a dream he has come close to achieving.
Andrew Chan of the Film Critics Circle of Australia writes, "There is also not enough laugh out loud moments for the film to be a comedy and when it tries for dramatic effects, it feels rather odd."[2]