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A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it’s his mother’s call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Madeo (2009)
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Rating:
(10,059 votes)
- Tagline:She'll stop at nothing. »
- Runtime:128 minutes
- Director: Joon-ho Bong
- Country:South Korea
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Actors: MotherHye-ja KimYoon Do-joonBin WonJin-tae (as Goo Jin)Ku JinJe-moon (as Jae-moon Yoon)Je-mun YunMi-sunMi-sun JunSepaktakraw Detective (as Sae-beauk Song)Sae-Byeok SongGroup LeaderByoung-Soon KimMi-naWoo-hee ChunAh-jeong's GrandmaGin-goo KimLawyer Kong Seok-ho (as Ou-hyung Yum)Moo-yeong Yeo
- Genres:Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Producers: Joon H. Choiassociate producerKatharine Kimco-executive producerMiky Leeexecutive producerYang-kwon Moonco-executive producerYang-kwon MoonproducerTae-joon ParkproducerWoo-sik Seoproducer
- Plot: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned. Written by Pusan International Film Festival
- User's comment:Seeking the Truth by Claudio Carvalho
In a province in Pusan, South Korea, the slow Yoon Do-joon (Bin Won) is a young man overprotected by his mother (Hye-ja Kim) that works with acupuncture and herbs and does not like his worthless and reckless friend Jin-tae (Goo Jin). When a Mercedes runs over Do-joon, Jin-tae follows the hit-and-run driver with Do-joon and find the car parked in a golf club. Jin-tae breaks the side mirror of the car and Do-joon collects golf balls lost in a lake. When they see the cart with the driver and passengers of the Mercedes, there is a fight and they end in the police station. During the night, Do-joon walks to the bar Manhattan to meet Jin-tae that does not arrive; when Do-joon returns home, he sees the easy Moon Ah-jung (Mun-hee Na) walking alone in an alley and entering in an abandoned house. On the next morning, Ah-jung is found dead on the terrace of the house. The incompetent detectives find a golf ball near her body and they conclude that Do-joon is the killer. Doo- joon is arrested; signs a confession and is charged of murder. However, his mother follows her instincts believing that her son is innocent and the scapegoat of the incompetent police department and seeks the truth disclosing a dreadful reality.
"Madeo" is an original and dramatic South Korean thriller that has an engaging story with a surprising plot point and many twists. The director Joon-ho Bong of "Gwoemul" makes a simple but effective film with a credible story of a single woman that does everything possible and impossible to prove the innocence of her son that is slow probably because he was poisoned when he was five. The performance of Hye-ja Kim deserves a nomination to the Oscar in the role of a dedicated loving mother that pursues the truth about the murder of a teenager student. With the exception of one review of a user that probably has difficulties to read subtitles; the nine wins, six nominations and the favorable reviews of twenty-three IMDb users are practically an unanimous indication that "Madeo" is a great film indeed. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Mother - A Busca Pela Verdade" ("Mother – Seeking the Truth")
- Also known as: Mother (International - English title), Mother (South Korea - literal English title), Mother (Sweden - imdb display title), Mother (USA - festival title), Мать (Russia), Madre (Argentina - imdb display title), Matka (Czech Republic - imdb display title), Mitera (Greece - festival title), Mother - A Busca Pela Verdade (Brazil), Mother - Uma Força Única (Portugal),
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