

Be Somebody
2021-11-11 · 123 min · ★ 7.5
During the Republican era, a group of frustrated people from the movie industry is invited in a luxurious mansion to make a movie out of a gruesome case that has recently rattled the city of Shanghai, in the hopes that it would turn into a huge sensation and make them famous. However, they never expected that the murderer would be in their midst and that the truth behind the case would be far more bizarre than their fictional movie plot.
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Production details
- Directors
- Liu Xunzimo
- Production companies
- Shanghai PMF Media, Maoyan Entertainment, Uni Media
- Countries
- China
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 40,000,000
- Revenue
- USD 132,326,332
Top Cast
Yin ZhengLi Jia Hui
Deng JiajiaSu Meng Die
Yu EntaiZheng Qian Li
Yang HaoyuGuan Jing Nian
Chen MinghaoLu Zi Ye
Zhang BenyuQi Le Shan
Ke DaChen Xiao Da
Qin XiaoxianHai Zhao Feng
Deng EnxiYe Ying
Winston Chao
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