How to Steal a Dog
2014 · Movie · 109 min · ★ 7.2 · 83% critics
A young girl facing homelessness comes up with a risky plan to raise money for a new place to live: taking dogs from wealthy owners and returning them for reward money. As she follows her scheme, she’s forced to weigh survival, family pressures, and the feelings of those caught in the middle.
Also known as A Perfect Way to Steal a Dog
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Details
- Original title
- 개를 훔치는 완벽한 방법
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-12-31
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (20 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a warm, emotional story about family hardship and a kid’s tough choices, with a feel-good payoff; Not for you if you dislike sentimental dramas or predictable plots like Pawn.
Pros: heartfelt kid-focused story; feel-good tone; relatable money struggles | Cons: predictable beats; sentimental moments; simple premise
Themes
- homeless person
- based on novel or book
- homelessness
- motherly love
- heist
- single mother
- dog
- sibling
- loss of pet
- missing parent
- homeless man
- heist gone wrong
- +20 more
Cast & crew
Kim Hye-ja
as Lady Marcel
Lee Re
as Ji-so
Choi Min-soo
as Dae-po
Kang Hye-jung
as Jung-hyun
Lee Chun-hee
as Soo-young
Lee Hong-gi
as Seok-gu
Cho Eun-ji
as Chae-rang's Mother
Kim Jae-hwa
as Teacher
Lee Ji-won
as Chae-rang
- HE
Hong Eun-taek
as Ji-seok
Directed by Kim Sung-ho