Sweet Alibis

Sweet Alibis is a 2014 Taiwanese comedy film starring Alec Su as a cowardly veteran cop and Ariel Lin as an overzealous rookie. The film follows the pair who team up to solve crimes together in Kaohsiung.

Plot
Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy's accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly digs up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.

Cast

 * Alec Su
 * Ariel Lin
 * Matt Wu
 * Lei Hong
 * Lang Tsu-yun
 * Ken Lin
 * Chu Chih-ying
 * Austin Lin
 * Kao Meng-chieh
 * Ma Nien-hsien
 * Bebe Du
 * Tao Chuan-cheng
 * Lin Chia-ling
 * Lee Kuo-hung
 * Ruby Lin - Cameo

Theme song

 * "Lao Tian You Yan" (老天有眼) performed by Alec Su (originally sung by Hei-pao in the 1980s)

Reception
It was the number-one film in Taiwan box office for a week in January 2014, but overall grossing was disappointing with only NT$ 20.6 million (roughly $0.6 million) despite generally positive reviews. It was successful in the Chinese box office in March 2014, ranking only behind 2 Taiwanese films — You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011) and Black & White Episode I: The Dawn of Assault (2012) — in first-week grossing. It grossed ¥36.6 million (roughly $6 million) in mainland China.

Awards

 * 2014 51st Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
 * Nominated — Lang Tsu-yun, Best Supporting Actress
 * 2014 Osaka Asian Film Festival
 * Nominated — Grand Prix
 * 2014 6th Straits Film and Television Awards
 * Won — Favourite Taiwanese film in mainland China

Trivia
There are in-jokes in the film referencing characters from the TV series In Time with You (2011) starring Ariel Lin and Romance in the Rain (2001) starring Alec Su and Ruby Lin.