The court of public opinion is in session and casts its judgemental eye over a freak incident at a public hospital in the mainland Chinese thriller Malice, produced and co-scripted by blockbuster filmmaker Chen Sicheng and directed by Lai Mukuan and Yao Wenyi.

Zhang Xiaofei (Hi, Mom) stars as Ye Pan, an ambitious journalist whose hunger for a sensational story spirals out of control after a nurse and a young female patient fall from the hospital’s roof. Mei Ting co-stars as Qian, the mother of the young victim, who cries foul and demands justice, only to also fall under polarising scrutiny.

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