Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 14
A simple story told with much warmth and compassion.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 5
A simple story told with much warmth and compassion.
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Average Rating: 4.2/5
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A youngster learns a valuable lesson about family, friendship, and love in this family drama from South Korea. Sang-woo (Yu Seung-ho) is a seven-year-old boy whose parents are divorced, and whose Mother (Dong Hyo-heui) has decided she needs a break from parenthood for the summer. Mother sends Sang-woo to the country to spend some time with his Grandmother (Kim Eul-bun), who is quite old, in poor health, and cannot speak. Sang-woo doesn't much care for his Grandmother, and prefers to spend his
Nov 15, 2002 Limited
May 6, 2003
$0.2M
Paramount Classics
All Critics (60) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (14) | DVD (5)
Thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances, the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods.
Eul-Boon Kim's soulful portrayal of the illiterate, deaf-mute grandmother illuminates the dignity of her demeanor and the sad resignation in her eyes.
The film is meant to be simple and charming. Unfortunately, it's simple and boring.
[The kid's] selfishness is difficult to watch at times, but if you have patience on the level of Granny's, the payoff is big.
The pace is slow, the message none too subtle and the boy barely tolerable. But the film is still better than the mainstream run of movies from Hollywood.
Jeong-Hyang Lee's film is deceptively simple, deeply satisfying.
manipulative tear jerking moments are far too familiar
The simplicity of The Way Home has few equals this side of Aesop
"The Way Home" is a commercial film that offers no cultural exchange, yet the silent performance of Eul-boon Kim enforces a visual storytelling style and both of these elements are strong even though "The Way Home" ultimately disappoints.
The film has good actors and enough quirky moments to keep it interesting.
A sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spice of specificity.
This is a really nice movie, but the little boy in this was so obnoxious, I was waiting for grandma too wack him with her walking stick...yet she never did. I kept waiting for that moment when the kid redeemed himself for all the nasty things that he did to her, but it wasn't until the very end where he ALMOST did.
January 1, 2011Super Reviewer
A heart warming story, but very drawn out. Because of the Grandmother being mute and most of the dialogue coming from the Grandson, this almost comes across the way a silent movie would in that you take more notice of the visual things. A kind of cute, but serious film, but very drawn out.
May 2, 2007Super Reviewer
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