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Formula 17 is a taiwanais film of genre Comedy released in USA on 2 april 2004 with Duncan Chow
Formula 17 (2004)
17 sui de tian kong
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Add to a movie listFormula 17 (17歲的天空, pinyin: shí qī suì de tiān kōng) is a 2004 film which was directed by Chen Yin-jung (陳映蓉). It stars Tony Yang (楊佑寧), Duncan (周群達), King Chin (金勤), Dada Ji (季宏全), Jimmy Yang (楊俊明), and Jason Chang (張大鏞). It is a gay romantic comedy film about Chou T'ien-Tsai, a romantic Taiwanese male who takes a trip to visit an online boyfriend in person for the first time. Finding his internet relationship unsuitable for his real life, he moves on with his life and rooms with an old time friend of his. The film describes T'ien's experiences with his loyal roommate and his friends, and a surprising relationship that he develops with the local "Playboy".
This film was banned in Singapore because it "portrayed homosexuality as normal, and a natural progression of society".
Synopsis
Naive country bumpkin Chou T'ien Tsai goes to Taipei to meet an internet friend face-to-face. Being a romantic, and believing in 'true love' (he even has a book called Love Is A Kind Of Faith), he is sorely disappointed when his internet friend, Kevin, suggests they have sex with no love. T'ien instead goes to a bar and runs into his ex-classmate Yu and Yu's friend CC. In the same bar, he encounters the 'Number One Playboy' Bai Tieh Nan, who is notorious for one night stands. Despite professing his dislike for 'men who play with love', T'ien can't help but be drawn to Bai.Actors
Duncan Chow
(Bai Tieh-nan)
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