synopsis
Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, and daydreams of setting up their own business – which Chen does not want to do. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realises that if he and Lily get their own enterprise this could be their only means of escape.

about the film
— From the director of “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, “Donnie Brasco”, “Traffic” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”.
— Adapted for the screen by Ian McEwan.
— Featuring Jim Carter (Carson, from “Downton Abbey”) and Sylvia Chang (from “Eat Drink Man Woman” and “The Red Violin”).

Soursweet.1988.DVDrip.24fps.x264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 50 min 29s
Size: 	1.64 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	714x576 ~> 768x576
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 929 kb/s
BPP: 	0.195
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/A90BE954B4CF554/Soursweet.1988.DVDrip.24fps.x264.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/C35C618C605441E/Soursweet.1988.DVDrip.24fps.x264.srt

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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review – AMG:
A precisely cut social commentary, Dance with a Stranger captures the twin woes of austerity and repression that characterized 1950s Britain. Director Mike Newell keeps polemics to a minimum, treating his subject as a carefully observed study of class tension and sexual obsession. He dissects the Ellis-Blakely affair in the measured, diligent manner that one might employ to reconstruct a catastrophic train wreck; since the outcome is a foregone conclusion, Newell finds drama in the forces leading to that conclusion. The film works best as a grim character study, in which character is seen (by society) as an outgrowth of class. As Ruth Ellis, Miranda Richardson exemplifies what happens when one becomes a prisoner of both character and class; coming across as an icy Marilyn Monroe knock-off, Ellis is ruled by the misfortune of loving a man outside both her class and the possibility of human affection. She is ably supported by Rupert Everett, petulant and pretty as her spoiled brat lover, and Ian Holm as Desmond Cussen, whose own quiet obsession with Ellis forcefully complements her obsession with Blakely. Both obsessions are fraught with irrational desperation, but Cussen’s ends with a whimper, while Ellis’ ends with a fatal bang.

Dance.with.a.Stranger.1985.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-PLiSSKEN.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 41mn
Size:	6.91 GiB
Video
Codec:	h264
Resolution:	1920x1080
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	10 000 kb/s
Audio
English 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/A86ACCF59F48D9A/Dance.with.a.Stranger.1985.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-PLiSSKEN.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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