Mother (2010)

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5 star rating THE Screened Review by Alex Navarro

A tense and brilliant crime drama from one of South Korea's best directors.
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Joon-ho Bong Director previously directed Tokyo!

Korean director Bong Joon-ho examines just how far a mother will go for the sake of her son in this dramatic thriller.
Trivia:

Screenplay for "Mother" was written specifically with veteran actress Kim Hye-Ja in mind and her character is named "Hye-ja" accordingly.

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Hye-ja Kim Mother
Won Bin Do-joon Yoon
Ku Jin Jin-tae
Je-mun Yun Je-mun
Mi-seon Jeon Mi-seon
Sae-byeok Song Sepak takraw detective
Yeong-seok Lee Junk collecting old man
Hee-ra Mun Ah-jeong Mun
Woo-hee Chun Mi-na, Jin-tae's girlfriend
Byeong-soon Kim Chief
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Plot

The murder of a young school girl sets a small town in Korea on edge, only satisfied by immediately finding the apparent killer.  Yoon Do-joon is the readily available scapegoat for police who have not had a murder case to solve for years.  A mentally-disabled grown man, Yoon Do-joon signs a written confession, all the while proclaiming his innocence, during interrogation from three officers.  The story of Mother follows Do-joon's mother as she does all that she can to prove her son's innocence and find the real killer. 
 
Met with resistance on all sides from an uncompromising and lazy lawyer, a greedy friend of her son Jin-tae, to a discouraging detective, Hye-ja will stop at nothing to attain justice for her son.
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Name Mother
US Release March 12, 2010
UK Release Aug. 20, 2010
AUS Release
Runtime 129
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Thriller
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haunting
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Rating R
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  • In today's dollars
    Domestic $551,509
    Foreign +16,557,264
  • = total worldwide gross $17,108,773
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