The Rough Ride |
Cast | Character Name |
Tony Leung | Chow Keem Hung |
Barbara Yung | Tse Bik Wah |
Ray Liu | |
Chan Mun Yee | Ah Mun |
Au Yeung Pui Shan | Pui Pui |
Lau Dan | (Tony's father) |
Ha Yu | (Tony's father) |
Kwan Hoi Shan | (Tony's grandfather) |
Plot Rating: 9/10
Artist Rating: 9.5/10
General Overview: I think this is Barbara's only modern day series. It's quite humorous.
This series starts out with Tony being introduced as having two
fathers. Even up until the end of the series, the audience never
finds out who Tony's real father is. In the beginning, Tony lives
with his two fathers in an apartment. He teaches at a night
school. He meets Barbara by chance when she is chasing a
prostitute and knocks him down. He wrongly assumes that she is a
prostitute when in fact, she is a cop.
He later finds out who she really is when his two fathers have a
fight and end up at the police station, each wanting to sue the
other. When the officers find out that both men are Tony's
fathers, his fathers reveal about their past in a sort of
flashback.
Chan Mun Yee is lawyer who just graduated. Ray's grandfather
(Kwan Hoi Shan) supported her throughout law school. She lives
with her mom. Kwan Hoi Shan owns a jewelry store and Ray, his
grandson, works there as a manager.
As the series progresses, Tony's two fathers fall in love with
Au-Yeung Pui Shan and its quite comical watching them fight over
her. Tony dates Barbara but his two dads don't like her because
she's a cop. Chan Mun Yee and Tony become friends and later on,
she likes him. However, he's already dating Barbara, so Chan Mun
Yee goes out with Ray. Tony and Barbara's relationship is kind of
rocky from the start, so they end up breaking up.
Well, it turns out that one of Tony's dads is the son of Kwan Hoi
Shan. Therefore, Tony and that dad move in with Kwan Hoi Shan and
Tony works for his grandfather at the jewelry company. Ray and
Tony were previously good friends but now this "family"
matter was putting them on bad terms. The reason is that Tony is
supposedly the grandson on the son's side and Ray is only the
grandson on the daughter's side. Also, Ray's mom and one of his
uncles are influencing him in the wrong way. Tony and Ray get
into arguments at the company.
Kwan Hoi Shan senses these problems and transfers Tony to another
department. In addition, Tony goes to one of his grandfather's
old employees and gets trained on looking at jewels (ie. The old
man teaches Tony how to tell the price of the jewel by looking at
it).
Tony later realizes that he still likes Barbara, so he takes the
initiative and asks her out again. Barbara still likes him too,
but she doesn't want others to think that she wants to be with
him because he is rich now. Therefore, she rejects him at first.
However, later they get back together. Ray and Chan Mun Yee get
married.
Ray gets involved in illegal dealings at the company because he
tries to protect his mom who is involved. Tony and his
grandfather try to help Ray and later things are cleared up.
Something I don't quite remember very clearly is that Barbara was
chasing a crook and shot Tony by accident. This causes Tony's
grandmother to get very upset at her. At the end of the series
however, Tony and Barbara are very happy together.
8/28/98
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