2006 · drama · action · comedy
Rob-B-Hood
Directed by Benny Chan2h 16m2006
For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there's only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep - having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his golden goose to fend off his debtors? Can he overcome his phobia of diapers, milk bottles, and cloying lullabies?
Our read: Rob-B-Hood (2006) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded drama · action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
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