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Another simple but charming film is Joni's Promise from Indonesia. Topping the Indonesian box-office in 2005, this unpretentious crowdpleaser stars Nicolas Saputra �X the brightest and sexiest young actor in Indonesia, the country' equivalent of Leonardo DiCaprio �X as a delivery boy who races on his motorbike daily between one cinema and the next to send their reels of film. Happy with his life and work, he vows that no cinema audience will ever have to have his/her viewing pleasure disrupted because the reel is late.

Then, on the day that he meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen (Mariana Renata, who is quite possibly the most beautiful young actress in Indonesia), everything starts to go wrong. His bike is stolen. He is forced to help a crazy pregnant woman. He is duped by a handsome couple. He is made to play drums for a garage band. And he has to battle an eccentric local magician. It's all rather silly, but still kinda cute.

With big Indonesian names helming the project �X director Joko Anwar was formerly a film critic, while producer Nia Dinata (Arisan!) is a well-known filmmaker in her own right �X it is small wonder that the film grossed so much money at its local box-office in 2005. The film has traveled to several film festivals around the world where it was greeted with general enthusiasm.

Lighter than a breeze and more frivolous than a cotton candy, Joni's Promise is the movie to catch if you really feel like not thinking.