Way Back Home
2013 · Movie · 131 min · ★ 7.6
When a family repair business falls into serious debt, a desperate mother agrees to carry illegal goods overseas to help keep her household afloat. What follows is a tense, emotionally heavy ordeal about survival, family, and the crushing fallout of one terrible choice.
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Details
- Original title
- 집으로 가는 길
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-12-11
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 131 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (63 votes)
About
If you respond to intense, heartbreaking dramas about ordinary people under pressure, this may land for you, especially if you liked Miss Baek or Breath; Not for you if you need lighter pacing or easy comfort.
Pros: emotionally powerful story; strong performances; tense and moving | Cons: uneven emotional connection; some tedious stretches; drama may not convince
Themes
- prison
- france
- woman director
Cast & crew
Jeon Do-yeon
as Song Jung-yeon
Go Soo
as Im Jong-bae
Kang Ji-woo
as Hye-rin
Choi Min-chul
as Seo Moon-do
Lee Dong-hwi
as Gwang-sik
Park Ji-hwan
as Tae-gwang
- SJ
Seo Jin-won
as Sang-chul
Choi Gwi-hwa
as Detective from Seoul Prosecutor's Office
Corinne Masiero
as Hellboy
Joanna Kulig
as Yalka
Directed by Pang Eun-jin