Wait 'Til You're Older

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Wait 'Til You're Older

Directed by	Teddy Chan
Written by	Chan Suk-Yin
Starring	Andy Lau, Karen Mok, Feng Xiaogang
Distributed by	Media Asia
Release date(s)	29 September 2005 (Hong Kong)
Running time	89 min
Language	Cantonese
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Wait 'Til You're Older (Tung mung kei yun) is a 2005 film directed by Teddy Chan.

[edit] Plot

Kwong is a young boy who lives with his father and stepmother (Karen Mok), he blames his stepmother for the suicide of his mother 3 years earlier and continually runs away from home. One day while walking to school he meets an old man in the park who accidentally pours a potion he has created down a drain, the next day, a huge tree has grown from a seedling in the drain, Kwong goes the man's house and steals the potion, falling and breaking it when he runs away, some of it enters a cut in his hand, and the next day he wakes up to find he has grown to the age of 20 overnight. Kwong thinks himself being better to become an adult, but he has learned a lesson that the potion brings him to run through his life in just days. He becomes older and older as he becomes a very old man few days later. He goes back to his parents and apologizes to his mistakes. Tragically, he died at last by old age.