Breakup Buddies


Breakup Buddies is a 2014 Chinese romantic comedy and road film directed by Ning Hao. It stars Huang Bo and Xu Zheng as buddies on a wild 3,000-kilometre cross-country journey from Beijing to Dali City.
The film premiered at the 2014 [Toronto International Film Festival] on September 7, 2014, and was released domestically on September 30, 2014. It grossed over $195 million to become one of the List of [highest-grossing films in China|highest-grossing films in China].

Plot

Womanizer Hao Yi takes his best friend Geng Hao on a road trip to Dali City in Yunnan — China's unofficial capital of one-night stands — to help him recover from a devastating divorce. Years before, Kang Xiaoyu had traversed the same route to Dali where she met her future husband.

Cast

of Film Business Asia gave Breakup Buddies a 7 out of 10, calling it "Ning Hao's maturest film so far" and praising the performances as "strong".

Box office

The film grossed ¥1.16971 billion at the Chinese box office and a total of US$195.3 million internationally. The Guardian's Phil Hoad mentioning the film as one of "a few, giant, isolated local hits".