Pawn (2020)

Original title

담보

Directed by

Kang Dae-gyu

Genre

drama film, comedy film, family film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

12

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two debt collectors take a young girl as collateral from her mother who is an illegal immigrant. Over time they form an unlikely bond with the child.

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What happens

Pawn (Korean: 담보; RR: Dambo; lit. 'Collateral') is a 2020 South Korean comedy drama film, directed by Kang Dae-gyu and produced by Yoon Je-kyoon. The film starring Sung Dong-il, Ha Ji-won, Kim Hee-won and Park So-yi, is a human drama which revolves around two debt collectors, Doo-seok (Sung Dong-il) and Jong-bae (Kim Hee-won), who take nine-year-old girl Seung-yi (Park So-yi) as "collateral" from her mother, an illegal immigrant. The film was released in theaters on September 29, 2020. It received generally positive reviews and became the sixth-highest-grossing Korean film of 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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