It Had To Be You

Name: It Had To Be You
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Released: 2005-03-04
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Cast: Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Eric Tsang Chi-wai, Karena Lam Kar-yan, Nicola Cheung Sun-Yuet, Bobo Chan Man-Yuen

2005, Cantonese. Directed by Andrew Loo & Maurice Li.

Restaurant supervisor Jill (Karena Lam) has a handsome boyfriend Chi On (Wu Bing), but she is just his backup girlfriend. She knows she is the other girl, but her hope for being his one and only has never ceased until he changes his formal girlfriend once again. All her anger goes to her co-worker Jack (Ekin Cheng), who appears to be a womanizer but indeed shares a similar unfortunate romantic situation of being the backup boyfriend of an airhostess. Knowing that both are victims in romantic relationships, Jack and Jill no longer spar with each other and a liking between them start to develop

Romance Comedy

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Runtime: 1h 33m
Post-credits: None listed
Language: Cantonese
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Released: 4 March 2005
Original title: 後備甜心
Country: Hong Kong
Written by: Andrew Loo, Theresa Tang Kit-Ming

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Who directed It Had To Be You?

It Had To Be You (2005) was directed by Andrew Loo and Maurice Li and stars Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Eric Tsang Chi-wai, Karena Lam Kar-yan.