Wednesday 11 September
10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm
Director Pat Boonitipat
Drama
Thailand
Thai (English subtitles)
127 minutes
The movie centres around M, a struggling game streamer and college dropout from a Thai family. M’s life lies stagnant, until his grandma gets diagnosed with cancer. Inspired by how a cousin of his inherited her grandfather’s house after caring for him throughout a long illness, M decides to cosy up to Amah (played by the wonderful Usha Seamkhum) in an attempt to inherit her assets after she dies.
With a strong set of characters, How to Make Millions’ proceeds to craft numerous tear-jerking moments whose emotional punch comes from their degree of cultural relevance; many of the movie’s audiences in Southeast Asia could probably see such incidents playing out in their own families.
The central relationship of the film — between the grandson and the grandmother — was something that was almost universal. The memory of grandmother tends to develop early on when you’re still pretty small, and I think maybe people will resonate with that pure warmth – Pat Boonitipat, Director
The well-crafted dynamics between How to Make Millions’ characters give the movie a strong foundation. Each family member plays a distinct yet complementary role that highlights the range of personalities that Asian families often embody. – Cinema Escapist
