How to Steal a Dog (Korean: 개를 훔치는 완벽한 방법; RR: Gaereul humchineun wanbyeokhan bangbeob; lit. "The Perfect Way to Steal a Dog") is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Kim Sung-ho, based on the novel of the same name by Barbara O'Connor.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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Directed by | Kim Sung-ho |
Written by | Kim Sung-ho Shin Yeon-shick |
Based on | How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor |
Produced by | Eom Yong-hun Lee Seong-hwan |
Starring | Lee Re Kim Hye-ja |
Cinematography | Kim Hyeong-ju |
Edited by | Lee Jin |
Music by | Kang Min-guk |
Production company | Samgeori Pictures |
Distributed by | Little Big Pictures Daemyung Culture Factory |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Plot
Ten-year-old Ji-so lives in a car with her mother Jeong-hyeon and younger brother Ji-seok. Her father disappeared after their pizza business went bankrupt. When she sees a missing dog poster with a five-hundred-dollar reward, Ji-so naively believes that that amount of money would be enough to buy her family a house. So she hatches a plan with her brother to find a dog with a rich owner, steal it, and then return the dog by pretending to have found it and get the reward. Their target is Wolly, the dog of an old rich lady who owns the street where their car was parked. While undertaking their "perfect" plan, they befriend Dae-po, a homeless man who ends up living in the abandoned building where they've stashed the dog. But someone else is after Wolly: Soo-young, the old lady's nephew, who'll stop at nothing to gain his aunt's inheritance. In the end, Ji-so and her family do not appear Ji-so and her family finally live in a house but it is for a woman who lives alone, so she invited them to live with her and her baby.
Cast
- Lee Re as Ji-so
- Lee Ji-won as Chae-rang
- Kim Hye-ja as Old lady
- Choi Min-soo as Dae-po
- Kang Hye-jung as Jeong-hyeon
- Lee Chun-hee as Soo-young
- Lee Hong-gi as Seok-gu
- Lee Ki-young as Director Park
- Jo Eun-ji as Chae-rang's mother
- Tablo
- Kim Won-hyo as Traffic policeman
- Kim Jae-hwa as Homeroom teacher
- Hong Eun-taek as Ji-seok
- Kim Do-yeop as Min-seob
- Sam Hammington
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
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2015 | 20th Chunsa Film Art Awards[7] | Best Director (Grand Prix) | Kim Sung-ho | Nominated |
24th Buil Film Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
52nd Grand Bell Awards | Best Director | Kim Sung-ho | Nominated | |
Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |||
Best New Actress | Nominated | |||
33rd Ale Kino! Festival[8] | Golden Poznan Goats for Best Children's Feature Movie | Kim Sung-ho | Won | |
Marcinek Award for Best Children's Feature Movie | Won | |||
Teachers' Award for Best Movie | Won |
References
External links
- Official website (in Korean)
- How to Steal a Dog at the Korean Movie Database
- How to Steal a Dog at IMDb
- How to Steal a Dog at HanCinema