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Mother (2009)

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R 129 minutes KO Crime , Drama , Mystery

She'll stop at nothing.

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.

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Kim Hye-ja

Mother

Won Bin

Yoon Do-joon

Jin Goo

Jin-tae

Yoon Je-moon

Je-moon

Jeon Mi-seon

Mi-seon

Song Sae-byuk

Sepak Takraw Detective

Lee Young-suk

Elder at Junk Shop

Moon Hee-ra

Moon Ah-jeong

Chun Woo-hee

Mi-na

Kim Byeong-soon

Police Group Leader

Yeo Moo-yeong

Lawyer Kong Seok-ho

Jung Young-ki

Skinny Student

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Ryu Seong-hie

Production Design

Hong Kyung-pyo

Director of Photography

Lee Byung-woo

Original Music Composer

Moon Se-kyoung

Editor

Jung Doo-hong

Fight Choreographer

Yoo Young-il

VFX Supervisor

Hwang Hyun-gyu

Makeup & Hair

Gang Hye-yeong

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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!)

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Official website: http://www.motherfilm.com

Production companies: Barunson E&A, CJ Entertainment, Michigan Venture Capital

Production countries: South Korea

Budget: $5,000,000

Revenue: $17,112,713

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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