The Way Home PG
Discover the magical movie that has captured the heart of a nation
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2017
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eul-boon Kim & Seung-ho Yoo | |
Directed by | Jeong-hyang Lee | |
Screenwriting by | Jeong-hyang Lee |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
Writer/director Jeong-hyang Lee, in only her second feature, establishes a situation rife with gentle humor and honest, unaffected love.
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EricDSnider.com
Rating: C --
"The Way Home" is a commercial film that offers no cultural exchange, yet the silent performance of Eul-boon Kim enforces a visual storytelling style and both of these elements are strong even though "The Way Home" ultimately disappoints.
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Reeling Reviews
...Lee has invested a great deal of autobiographical currency in the film -- emotionally if not literally -- and the result is appropriately resonant...
Box Office
Rating: C --
manipulative tear jerking moments are far too familiar
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Old School Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
The pace is slow, the message none too subtle and the boy barely tolerable. But the film is still better than the mainstream run of movies from Hollywood.
Arizona Republic
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances, the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods.
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Boston Globe
...[Kim Eul-boon] is a real natural...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
This subtle and bucolic Korean film is "dedicated to all grandmas" by its director Jeong-hyang Lee. The story concerns bratty, selfish seven-year-old Sang-Woo (Seung-Ho Yoo) who is sent out into the mountains to live with his ancient, mute, partially deaf grandmother (Eul-Boon Kim) while his stressed-out single mom looks for work back in the city. Angry and resentful, the boy is bored with his new life of simple food, sleeping on the floor in a one-room hut, and having nowhere to buy batteries for his dying handheld video game. Eventually Grandma's humble patience and unconditional love get through to him, and there's plenty of space for comic vignettes and moving moments of stillness along the way. The boy's hyper world of candy and toys contrasts with grandma's slow, natural environment and allows for contemplation on our rapidly changing culture. This is the second film from Ms. Lee, whose cast consists largely of inexperienced locals from the village where she shot the film. Eul-Boon Kim is a particularly amazing discovery as the grandmother; she had never even seen a movie before being cast.
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