

The Money-Maker Recipe
2008-08-08 · Runtime unavailable · Not rated
“HOUSEWIVES” always are the good long term bets compared to the other options. As a stockbroker, WONG CHI CHUNG (Tse Tin Wah) is not cunning and tricky enough. Many of his customers have turned to the new securities firm in the same estate. Top broker of the firm, TING SHIU KING (Lam Ka Wah), tries to expand his customer base by developing the housewives market. He teaches CHUNG’s wife TSEUNG YUE CHU (Sheung Tin Ngor) all about stock exchanges. CHU earns a lot of money through KING and many housewives follow her blindly. CHUNG wants CHU to stop indulging in stock market and they fight with each other all the time. Feeling lost in both his career and marriage, CHUNG meets his puppy lover KOO KA CHUN (Tang Lai Ming) and discovers that she also works as a stockbroker. While everybody has become a devoted stockholder, the market suddenly drops drastically…
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- Lam Chi-wah
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Kiki Sheung
Michael Tse Tin-wah
Dominic Lam Ka-wah
Joyce Tang Lai-ming
Angela Tong Ying-ying
Toby Leung Ching-Kei
Ellesmere Choi
Leanne Li
Savio Tsang
Law Lok-lam
Suet Nei
Rain Lau Yuk-Chui
Alice Fung So-bor
Mary Hon Ma-lee
Ng Wai-San
Samantha Chuk Man-Kwan
Rainbow Ching
Mat Yeung Ming
Thomas Sin Ho-Ying
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