The Way Home
by Jeong-hyang Lee
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Actor: Eul-boon Kim, Eun-kyung Yim, Hyo-hee Dong, Kyung-hyun Min, Seung-ho YuDirector: Jeong-hyang Lee
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Korean (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Way Home
Movie Review: good korean movie, kind of sad and kind of sweet
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased two copies, one as a gift. This is a nice little story of a grandmother living in the country in old fashioned style and her city grown grandson who is tied to video games, tv and all the stimuli of today. When he's stuck in the country with a mute grandmother, the conflicts are apparent but the consistent care of his grandmother eventually rubs off, making this a bitter sweet movie at the end. Won many awards in film, highly recommended for the great price.
Summary of The Way Home
Quietly unfolding like a sweet and simple fable, The Way Home is a touching, award-winning film about the common bonds that emerge between distant generations. Directed with delicate compassion by Jyong-Hyang Lee, it's the first South Korean film to receive distribution by a major American studio (under the art-house imprimatur of Paramount Classics), and begins when seven-year-old Sang-Woo (Yoo Seung-Ho) is left with his mute, stooped-over grandmother (Kim Eul-Boon) in her ramshackle hut in a rural region far from the comforts of Seoul. While his single mother struggles to find a job, the selfish boy initially resents his elderly relative, who responds to his obstinate behavior with unconditional love. Slowly, the boy comes to respect and love his caring grandma in return, and while The Way Home is too slight for its 88 minutes and leaves important character details unexplained, its soothing rhythms, youthful humor, and playful score lend universal appeal to the story. (Amazingly, the 78-year-old Kim had never seen a film before appearing in this one.) --Jeff ShannonArt House & International DVD Video
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