Reviewed by: Stephe Date: 01/27/2011 In Dreams Come True, Kitty Ting Hao plays a poor orphan girl who sells flowers and is hassled by two local toughs who extort her for protection money. Since this is primarily a comedy, she is saved when at a ship arrival, a wealthy young man, played by Kelly Lai Chen, mistakes her for a woman due to arrive from San Francisco and takes her home. The bulk of the film has Kitty hiding from Kelly's family finding out her true identity, while trying to evade her extorters. When the real San Francisco woman arrives, it is Kitty in a tight shimmery cheongsam with coke bottle glasses and fake protruding upper canine teeth. Looking for their missing daughter, the orphan girl's parents mistake the San Francisco woman for their own. To her credit, Kitty plays the Chinese-American woman with deft body language that makes it hard to believe that it's really her. In the end, everything works out well for everyone. Sort of fun despite the undercurrent with the extorters. Reviewer Score: 5

Reviewed by: duriandave Date: 10/24/2005 What a surprise! Dreams Come True, a screwball comedy starring Kitty Ting Hao in a dual role as a poor flower girl who gets mistaken for a rich girl visiting from San Francisco, comes out of left field to enter my Top 5 Cathay releases. The movie is exceptional across the board: great cinematography featuring some amazing location footage of 1960s Hong Kong; hilarious comic performances with spot-on timing; three wonderful songs, including a tongue-in-cheek "folk song" spoofing the lifestyle of the rich; and so much more. I even liked leading man Kelly Lai Chen (who didn't fare too well in my review of Because of Her). The rest of the supporting cast are excellent, even if they appear for only one scene. As for Kitty Ting Hao, she really impresses with her dual roles. As the poor girl thrown into the upper class, she provides many priceless moments of fish-out-of-water comedy. When she shows up later as the real rich girl, her mannerisms are so different that you forget it is Kitty beneath the role. The top-notch quality of the film is undoubtedly a result of director Bu Wancang, a veteran from 1930s Shanghai, who made the classic New Woman with Ruan Lingyu. I wasn't aware that he worked for Cathay, but evidently he made several films for them in 1960 and also several for Shaw Brothers in that same year. Hopefully, these films will get a DVD release some day. In the meantime, don't pass up Dreams Come True. It gets a perfect score in my book. Reviewer Score: 10