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The Way Home
Media Format DVD
Distributor Paramount
Release Date 2003-05-06
Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
List Price $19.99
Director Jeong-hyang Lee
Actors Eul-boon Kim Seung-ho Yu Hyo-hee Dong Kyung-hyun Min Eun-kyung Yim
Features Color
Features DVD-Video
Features Letterboxed
Features Subtitled
Features Widescreen
Features NTSC
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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.)