Have a Nice Day

Name: Have a Nice Day
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Animation
Released: January 26, 2018
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Cao Kou, Da Wang, Feng Xue, Haitao Shi, Hong Zhu

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: January 26, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Cao Kou, Da Wang, Feng Xue, Haitao Shi, Hong Zhu, Hongyu Zeng, Jian Liu, Kai Cao, Xiaofeng Ma, Xingjun Zhao, Yang Siming, Yi Zheng, Yu Wu, Zhu Changlong

Summary: A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing 1 million from his boss. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for XiaoA hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing 1 million from his boss. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his money.… Expand

Director: Jian Liu

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 77 min

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RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Jan 26, 2018

Writer/director Liu Jian has taken familiar stylistic elements, and made them feel fresh, and exciting. Have a Nice Day may be Jian's second feature after "Piercing I," but it feels like a major breakthrough. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Feb 21, 2017

Liu Jian’s animation Have a Nice Day is at once a bloodthirsty genre thriller; a political statement about China, globalization and capitalism; and a vibrantly witty piece of postmodern pop art. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Feb 21, 2017

The vivid palette of Liu’s animation conveys a comic book-like exuberance to the proceedings, but the underlying socioeconomic frustration is very real. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Feb 21, 2017

Liu’s storyline may be a slight and generic madcap gangster/hitman/thief movie, but the details of aesthetic design and character interaction flesh it out into something a little more wittily resonant, if not exactly deep. The pointed inventiveness of the carefully premeditated form doesn’t just compensate for the banality of the content, it becomes the content. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 26, 2018

A deadpan crime story with eccentric and fantastical touches, and a healthy sense of the absurd, “Have a Nice Day” makes a bold argument for Chinese animation as a fertile outlet for exploring the country’s more desperate, constricted lives, and the choices these people make. Read full review

Wes Greene

Jan 22, 2018

The film's pale-hued, Flash-like animation is abundant in detailed backgrounds that make the characters stand out like placards, allowing for Jian's critique of modern China to land with maximum force. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Feb 21, 2018

It wants so hard to be "Pulp Fiction," but it ends up "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag." Read full review

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