Pawn
2020 · Movie · Not Rated · 113 min · ★ 8.3
An intimidating debt collector with a kind heart becomes the unexpected guardian of a child after her mother, an undocumented immigrant, leaves her behind as collateral. What begins as an uneasy arrangement grows into a tender story about responsibility, care, and unlikely family.
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Details
- Original title
- 담보
- Years
- 2020
- Release date
- 2020-09-29
- Language
- Korean
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 113 min
- TMDB rating
- 8.3/10 (73 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy heartfelt family dramas like Hello Ghost or How to Steal a Dog; Not for you if stories involving debt, separation, or vulnerable children feel too heavy.
Pros: warm found-family premise; emotional guardian dynamic; gentle heart | Cons: heavy starting situation; debt-related premise; immigration hardship theme
Themes
- loan shark
- moneylender
- 1990s
- incheon
Cast & crew
Sung Dong-il
as Doo-seok
Park Soi
as Young Seung-yi
Kim Hie-won
as Jong-bae
Ha Ji-won
as Seung-yi
Yunjin Kim
as Myeong-ja
Kim Jae-hwa
as Madam Jeong
Teo Yoo
as Deok-hwa
Jung In-gi
as Translator
Na Moon-hee
as Seung-yi's Grandmother
- JY
Jin Yoo-young
as Minister
Directed by Kang Dae-gyu