Singapore Film Database
Tiong Bahru Social Club
Directed by
Tan Bee Thiam
Year
Runtime
2020
88 minutes
Genre
Comedy
Language
English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Malay, Tamil
Synopsis
Just fired from his job, 30-year-old Ah Bee then signs up as a young Happiness Agent with Tiong Bahru Social Club, a pilot project using data to build the happiest neighbourhood in an ageing Singaporean district.
In this place, artificial intelligence helps people learn what to do based on big data, and even matches their lovers. He moves into the communal house and finds himself in a strange cult of happiness and technology. He is now tasked with taking care of an elderly aunt, and he even meets a girl.
Things seem to look brighter, but he soon realizes that something is going wrong. How will his story go?
Producer(s)
Huang Junxiang
Produced by
Tiger Tiger Pictures, Bert Pictures, 13 Little Pictures
International Sales/Distribution
Cast
Thomas Pang, Guat Kian Goh, Jalyn Han
Tags
2020, Comedy, Happiness, Neighborhood, Community, Science Fiction, Scifi, Dystopia, Utopia, Pearl Bank Apartments, Kinship, Cat, Future, Artificial Intelligence, Care, Ageing Population, Conservation, Architecture, Cult, Black Comedy, Technology