BIG SUCCESS!
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Sweet comedy is proving to be the salve to soothe the bleeding eardrums of Bangkokians besieged by the anti-government red-shirt rallies that have taken over parts of the Thai capital for the past week.

The top film at the box office last weekend was GTH’s Baan Chan … Talok Wai Gon (Por Son Wai) (บ้านฉัน…ตลกไว้ก่อน (พ่อสอนไว้), The Little Comedian), which earned $425,221 (about 13.7 million baht).

Shown on 117 screens, according to Box Office Mojo, the story of the one unfunny boy in a family of comedians outmuscled Matt Damon in director Paul Greengrass’s gritty Iraq War follow-cam drama Green Zone.

The previous week’s No. 1, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, dropped to third, with the pretty cool Ethan Hawke vampire thriller Daybreakers in fourth place.

The top five is rounded out by another Thai comedy, Kongphan Kruekkruen Tor Tahan Kuekkuk (Jolly Rangers), a slapstick army boot-camp farce from Phranakorn. The Jolly Rangers have been tenacious since their release on February 25-28, when the comedy was in second place to Sahamongkol’s moody horror Who Are You. While Who Are You plummeted to fifth place in its second week of release, Kongphan Kruekkruen Tor Tahan Kuekkuk hung on in third under Alice and Daybreakers.

BAN CHAN PROMOTIONAL PHOTOS
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Release Date: March 11, 2010
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Duration: 1hr 30mins

Actors:
Chawin Likitjareonpong
Jaturong Mokjok
Kwanjit Sriprajan
Onarnong Panyawong
Paula Taylor

Director:
Wittaya Tongyuyong

Synopsis: A boy named Tok is the prospective inheritor of his family that has been working as comedian for generations. But something goes wrong as Tok seems not to inherit any hilarity from his family: he can make no one laugh. When Tok meets Namkang, the only woman who does laugh to his jokes, their story of friendship begins.

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