With the New Year well underway and everyone safely back in Beijing after their various forays abroad, we are pleased to release our first Film Friday for 2010. And this is a tricky one. Instead of a recent blockbuster, in this episode we head back to the 1980s for a classic comedy you're likely to find in the back aisles at Blockbuster. We never expected to find the mandarin dub for this film, and never imagined that Echo would already have seen it. What were the odds?

If you consider yourself a film buff, listen in and see if you can identify our mystery Hollywood film from nothing more than this small clip dubbed into mandarin. And if you think you can solve our mystery? Get your guesses in to echo@popupchinese.com for your chance to win a free month of premium access to Popup Chinese: the only Chinese learning program guaranteed to be better than a failed marriage.
 said on
January 18, 2010
I'm old enough to know this one. Andrew McCarthy, right?
 said on
January 18, 2010
@barrister,

We can neither confirm nor deny his presence.... :)

--dave
 said on
January 22, 2010
Answer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093493/

Only two of you managed to guess this one correctly... but yes barrister, it definitely stars Andrew McCarthy. Echo will announce our winner later today. :)
 said on
January 24, 2010
And our winner for this week is Ryan Janscha, who now has himself a month of free premium access. Ryan, we are impressed and surprised. Impressed that you got the film when no-one else did, and surprised it ended up being a lot harder for everyone else than this one from last April. Congratulations anyway and enjoy the premium access!