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Summary
A Singaporean-made comedy about a group of 18 year old boys who are beginning the mandatory two-year military service in the Singapore army. Despite their different racial and family backgrounds, they discover many similarities and forge a friendship which would help ease their transition to the tough army routine.
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 63GoodWatch 66
Letterboxd · 222 ratings3.3/5
IMDb6.0
Box office
2.3×its budget
- Budget
- $507 K
- Worldwide
- $1 M
Worldwide it earned $653 K more than it cost.
Running time
1 h 24 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 comedies, −16 min on the typical 100
typical 10084Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1996
July 12, 1996
30 years ago
Genre
ComedyLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
ChineseMalayMade in
- Singapore
Directing · 1
- Ong Keng Sen Director
Writing · 1
- Michael Chiang Writer
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