Tiny Times 3 (2014)
Lin Xiao, Gu Li, Nan Xiang, Tang Wanru - these four best friends, after waving goodbye to their school campus and entering the workforce, they are faced with various challenges in their life: friendship, love, and career. Together, they become lost in life, having long forgotten their past courage.
What people think about Tiny Times 3
Tiny Times 3 is less a sober slice of reality than a glossy, high-voltage mood board of post-college life, where friendship is the true main character and every emotion arrives dressed for the occasion. It sweeps you into a world of designer sheen, dramatic romantic turns, and workplace growing pains with such unapologetic flair that even its excess can become part of the fun—sometimes sincerely swoony, sometimes delightfully absurd in a way that invites you to laugh with it. The visuals are polished and punchy, the camaraderie between the four leads has a soap-opera snap, and the whole thing plays like escapism with a beating heart. If you want grounded realism, this may not be your film, but if you’re craving glamorous, friendship-fueled melodrama that knows how to entertain, it’s an easy watch.
Tiny Times 3 is clearly trying to be a glossy, emotional snapshot of four best friends navigating love, careers, and the messy reality after graduation, with big feelings and even bigger lifestyle fantasy. The problem is it often confuses drama with noise: the storytelling jumps around, the plot coherence is shaky, and the characters can feel inconsistent depending on what the next scene needs. If you’re looking for grounded romance, believable growth, or anything resembling subtlety, this will likely feel shallow and more obsessed with wealth and spectacle than real stakes. That said, if you enjoy high-fashion melodrama, aspirational visuals, and can treat the narrative as secondary to the vibe, you may still get some guilty-pleasure entertainment out of it.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Guo Jingming
- Writers
- Guo Jingming
- Producers
- Guo Jingming
- Music
- Alan WongJanet Yung
- Cinematography
- Randy Che
Details
- Released
- July 17, 2014
- Language
- Chinese
- Studio
- EE-Media, Beijing Forbidden City Film, Shanghai Maisong Film Investment
- IMDb
- tt3861006














