Goodbye Mr. Loser
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| Chinese | 夏洛特烦恼 |
| Mandarin | Xià Luò Tè Fánnǎo |
| Directed by | Yan Fei Peng Damo |
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| Distributed by | Wuzhou Film Distribution New Classic Media Corporation |
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| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Box office | US$228.5 million |
Goodbye Mr. Loser (Chinese: 夏洛特烦恼; pinyin: Xià Luò Tè Fánnǎo) is a 2015 Chinese comedy film directed by Yan Fei and Peng Damo, and starring Shen Teng, Ma Li, Yin Zheng, Ai Lun, Wang Zhi, Tian Yu, Song Yang, Chang Yuan and Li Ping. The film is based on a play of the same name. It was released on September 30, 2015. Some critics have accused the film of containing similar plot elements as the 1986 American film Peggy Sue Got Married. The directors later denied these allegations.
Starring a cast of largely non-film comedians, the film became an enormous sleeper hit in China and was fueled by explosive word of mouth.
Unemployed amateur musician Xia Luo (夏洛, Shen Teng) attends the wedding of Qiu Ya (秋雅, Wang Zhi), his high school crush. He overdrinks, makes an inebriated declaration of love to Qiu Ya, and angers his wife Ma Dongmei (马冬梅, Ma Li), who publicly shames him for being a poor provider and husband.
After causing chaos as his wife pursues him through the wedding hall, Xia Luo locks himself into a bathroom at the wedding venue, flies into a rage of self-hatred and passes out, waking up in his teenage body in his middle-school classroom in 1997. After impulsively beating up his teacher, setting fire to the classroom, and kissing Qiu Ya, he jumps out a window to end the dream, but after waking up in hospital still in 1997, is forced to make the best of things.
Although Xia Luo appears his normal teenage self to everyone else in 1997, he retains all his memories of adult life, including around twenty years of as yet unwritten pop music—which he decides to present as his own work, to gain fame and to win the heart of Qiu Ya. Over the next twenty years he becomes a pop megastar in China, taking the place of other superstar singers from the original 1990s to 2000s timeline, including 'ghostwriting' famous TV themes for pop radio and duetting with Sarah Brightman at the 2008 Beijing Olympic opening ceremony in place of Liu Huan.
Having achieved all of his ambitions including marrying Qiu Ya, Xia Luo gradually realizes that he was destined to be with Ma Dongmei—after he abandoned her in middle school in the new timeline, she nevertheless defended him from bullies and troublemakers and was forced into a simple life in a small apartment, marrying one of Xia Luo's kindly but slow-witted classmates from 1997.
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