Dir.: Eric Khoo; Script: Eric Khoo, James Toh; Phot.: Ho Yoke Weng; Ed.: Jasmine Ng Kin Kia; Mus.: Kevin Mathews; Cast: Jack Neo, Koh Boon Pin, Chuang Yi Fong, Lum May Yee, Lucilla Teoh, Ritz Lim, Roderick Lim, Ronald Toh Chee Kong, Lok Yee Loy, Neo Swee Lin; Prod. & Sales: Brian Hong, Zhao Wei Films Pte Ltd., 22 Scotts Road #01-28, Singapour 228221, tél.: (65) 734 8718/(65) 730 1778, fax: (65) 737 8195.

Twenty-four hours in the lives of a group of inhabitants of one of Singapore's high-rise housing projects. Middle-aged Ah Gu, who makes his living hawking tofu, has brought a new wife back from Beijing. In Singapore, however, Lili is no longer the docile creature he knew in China. Lili is still seductive but she has her own idea of exactly how often they ought to have sex. In another apartment, San San, an overweight, single woman, lives with her nagging mother. Constantly lectured by the media, as well her mother, on the need to get married and have children, San San can't see any way out save suicide. Then there's Meng, Trixie and Tee. Their parents are away and Meng, the overbearing older brother, seizes the opportunity to lord it over his younger sister Trixie and little brother Tee. Meng becomes over-protective about his Trixie's relationship with her boyfriend Eddy, a spare parts salesman who hasn't finished high school. His meddling leads first to an argument, a breakdown and, ultimately, something far more explosive. "Eric Khoo's second features, 12 STOREYS, is as lighthearted as his first effort, MEE POK MAN, was dark. It is also a delight to watch." -- Susan Tsang (Singapore Business Times) "Khoo brings an intimacy to these funny, sometimes tragic, stories of unhappy families living in what seems on the surface like soul-less slabs of concrete." -- Sandi Tan (Singapore Straits Times)