Synopsis
Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989) is a Hong Kong action comedy you can watch online on iFILM — Jackie Chan directing himself as a penniless drifter who stumbles headfirst into organized crime.
Charlie arrives in the city broke, buys a lucky rose from an elderly flower seller, and within hours finds himself in the middle of a gang shootout. A dying boss names him heir to the entire organization. He has no idea how to run a criminal empire, and that gap between the role and the man is where the film lives. When the flower seller's daughter comes to visit and the old woman wants to look respectable, Charlie and a nightclub singer hatch a plan to pull off the most unlikely social deception Hong Kong has ever seen.
Chan pulled triple duty as director, producer, and star, loosely reworking Frank Capra's 1933 screwball premise into his own high-energy physical style. Less bone-crunching than his action vehicles, more warmth than most. Stream Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989) online on iFILM.
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