The Substitute
The Substitute
| 09 July 2017 (USA)
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To compensate the loss of Lu’s brother, Lu, the captain of judo team at school, has been brought up by her mother as a substitute of her brother in Beijing. In the seemingly masculine appearance, she secretly falls in love with Nicole, the internet celebrity girl from Taiwan. Lu and Nicole meet each other in a judo competition of which the winner would have the chance to become the leading actress in an action film. Nicole wins the competition, but she disappears right before the movie start shooting. As Nicole’s substitute, Lu then has the chance to play the leading actress of the action movie. But the thing is, is Lu able to find her own self-identity and be the real her in one’s life?

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Console

best movie i've ever seen.

Verity Robins

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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Allison Davies

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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Marva

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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