Mother

Unrated

2/4/20102h 9m

Premiere Release (US)

~ She'll stop at nothing. ~

Overview:

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

Director:

Bong Joon Ho

Status:

Released

Language:

Korean

Buget:

$5,000,000.00

Revenue:

$17,112,713.00

Key words:

small town
mother
rice
golf
murder
teenage girl
misunderstanding
cell phone
drunk
disability
needle
drunkenness
acupuncture
mental retardation
mother son relationship
human mystery

Cast

Kim Hye-ja

~ as ~

Mother

Won Bin

~ as ~

Yoon Do-joon

Jin Goo

~ as ~

Jin-tae

Yoon Je-moon

~ as ~

Je-moon

Jeon Mi-seon

~ as ~

Mi-seon

Song Sae-byuk

~ as ~

Sepak Takraw Detective

Lee Young-suk

~ as ~

Elder at Junk Shop

Moon Hee-ra

~ as ~

Moon Ah-jeong

Chun Woo-hee

~ as ~

Mi-na

Kim Byeong-soon

~ as ~

Police Group Leader

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
This is a corking film from Bong Joon Ho with an equally super performance from Hye-ja Kim as the "Mother". Her son "Soon Do-joon" (Won Bin) is accused of murdering a young girl. The police seem convinced of his guilt and her lawyer suggests he be detained in an hospital - rather than a prison - so she sets out, determinedly, to establish his innocence. As she takes to her task, she soon becomes obsessed, her own mental stability begins to wobble and we are drawn into a dark, almost sombre, crime thriller. It has plenty of twists and turns, and by the end (which comes pretty much from the left field) I almost felt exhausted. This is as engrossing a film as I've seen in many years, with an excellent (almost Andalusian in style) accompanying score - well worth watching. (Maybe less so if you are not so keen on acupuncture needles!)