Homerun (film)

Homerun Chinese pinyin po b hiz is a 2003 Singaporean Mandarinlanguage film. A remake of the awardwinning Iranian film Children of Heaven, Homerun is a drama about two poor siblings and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. Set in 1965, the year Singapore separated from Malaysia, the film satirises the political relations between the two countries, leading to its banning in Malaysia.

In 1965, two poor Singaporean children, Chew Kiat Kun Shawn Lee and his younger sister Seow Fang Megan Zheng live with their mother Xiang Yun who is late in her third pregnancy and their father Huang Wenyong who is in debt to a local rice merchant. The children make the best of what little they have, while their father works long hours doing odd jobs.The familys problems are compounded when Kiat Kun accidentally loses Seow Fangs only pair of shoes after taking them to be repaired. The children conduct a frantic search but find nothing a karung guni man had claimed the shoes as unwanted rubbish. The Chew siblings are frustrated and rendered helpless by the situation until their father inspires Kiat Kun to share his shoes with his sister, trading off between classes so they can both attend school. Unfortunately, this plan brings additional problems Seow Fang is chastised for wearing oversized shoes to school, while Kiat Kun is repeatedly late as he must wait for his sister to exchange shoes with him. ........

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