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The Way Home (2002)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:41
Rotten:14
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: A simple story told with much warmth and compassion.
Theatrical Release:Nov 15, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $229,073
Synopsis: This subtle and bucolic Korean film is "dedicated to all grandmas" by its director Jeong-hyang Lee. The story concerns bratty, selfish seven-year-old Sang-Woo (Seung-Ho Yoo) who is sent out into... [More]
Starring: Eul-Boon Kim, Seung-Ho Yoo, Kyung-Hoon Min, Kim Eun-kyung
Director: Jeong-hyang Lee
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Reviews for The Way Home
Don't be surprised if Home sends you running to hug your granny -- or the nearest old lady you can find.
11/15/02
The Way Home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all, a condition only the old are privy to, and...often misconstrued as weakness.
01/23/03
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03/27/03
It's not revolutionary, but it's satisfying.
02/24/03
The simplicity of The Way Home has few equals this side of Aesop
04/29/03
It’s obviously struck a responsive chord with many South Koreans, and should work its magic in other parts of the world.
12/08/02
like to think of the film as Local Hero for Kids, as the boy has to adapt from his urban kid lifestyle to the slow, simple ways of generations before. Will he do it? Will it work out? Can love overcome?
09/20/02
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02/17/03
Kim is the heart of The Way Home. She gives it simplicity, truth and a shimmering grace.
12/06/02
Top CriticAn uncluttered, resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations.
12/05/02
Writer/director Jeong-hyang Lee, in only her second feature, establishes a situation rife with gentle humor and honest, unaffected love.
03/01/03
As a tearjerker this works pretty well, though long before it gets to work on your tear ducts, it starts to eat away at your nerves.
02/06/03
Both heartbreaking and heartwarming...just a simple fable done in an artless sytle, but it's tremendously moving.
03/06/03
A wonderful Korean film that is a tutorial on the miracles that can be wrought by unconditional love.
11/14/02
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07/07/03
Thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances, the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods.
04/18/03
Lee Jeong-Hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that I couldn't help being captivated by it.
12/07/02
It's so good that you can practically see the Hollywood 'suits' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable American remake.
02/28/03
[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.
02/28/03
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