7.3
Gone Baby Gone
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A Guilty Conscience (2023)
January 20, 20232h 13mCN
6.7
58 votes
Overview
After his negligence causes an innocent woman to go to jail, a lawyer and his colleagues work to clear her name.
Director
Jack Ng Wai-LunWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Cantonese
Budget
$2.8M
Revenue
$10.0M
Production Companies
Edko FilmsAlibaba Pictures GroupIrresistible Beta LimitedFilm Development Fund of Hong Kong
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6.0"Adrian Lam" (Dayo Wong) is a magistrate who doesn't really care about his job. He gets a bit of a shock, though, when his new boss sends him back to the benches where he must, again, actually practice law. It's here, after a night on the booze, that he turns up to defend a woman charged with the negligent homicide of her young son. A combination of his laziness, incompetence and his hangover leaves this woman hung out to dry when one of the witnesses - from whom he didn't get a written deposition - changes his story. Off to jail she goes and into a maelstrom of despair goes he before the guil…
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