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BITTER/SWEET

By Jeff HARE

ANGEL & BEAR PRODUCTIONS LTD. - as PROD

Romance - Completed 2009

When do you realise you were made for each other?

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Countries
- THAILAND
- Languages
- THAI, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Jeff HARE
- Writer(s)
- Jeff HARE
- Cast
- Jame BROLIN, Kip PARDUE, Mamee NAKPRASIT, Tata YONG
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-B1B7-0000-3-0000-0000-S
- Producer(s)
- Laura SORENSON, Mark LANE (CAPITOL MOTION PICTURE GROUP), Urs BRUNNER (ANGEL & BEAR PRODUCTIONS LTD.)
- Synopsis
- “BITTER/SWEET” is a character-driven romantic comedy, while at the same time, also a classic, “fish-out-of-water” story. The movie is the story of American executive and coffee expert Brian Chandler (Kip Pardue), who seemingly has a “perfect” life. However, things begin to change for Brian after his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins (James Brolin) sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase.
  Upon arrival, Brian meets Ticha (Napakprapa “Mamee” Nakprasit), a Bangkok PR executive, who takes care of Thailand's glamorous multi-talent diva Tata Young (Tata Young.) Busy herself with work, Ticha has long-since given up on the prospects of finding true love. At the urging of her coffee farmer parents Nee and Surapong (Viyada Umarin and Sompop Benjadhikul) with the hopes that Brian will purchase his coffee there and save the village from a cutthroat middleman Kang (Arun Whasadeewong), Ticha takes on the task of bringing Brian to the coffee fields of Southern Krabi, and reconciling with her past.
  Ticha's fierce sister Mint (Pakaramai “Tong” Potranan) and her handsome boxing boyfriend Komane (Akara “Gof” Amatayakul), her outgoing best friend Mook (Kalorin “Kal” Nemayothin) and Mook’s outrageously funny expatriate boyfriend Werner (Spencer Garrett), not to speak of Brian's beautiful fiancee Amanda (Laura Sorenson) give interesting sub plots to the story.
  Brain and Ticha are the “same sides of a different coin” so they butt heads constantly. However, as their journey leads them from the cosmopolitan bustle of Bangkok to the picturesque limestones surrounded coffee plantations of Krabi, both Brian and Ticha begin to realize that they were made for each other.