Minari
Cast: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Youn Yuh-jung, Will Patton, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Scott Haze, Darryl Cox
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Rating: ****

The film that could propel Korean talent to yet another mainstream Oscar victory, ‘Minari,’ with executive producer Brad Pitt vouching for it, is a touching immigrant story about a Korean-American couple Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica (Yeri Han), who came from Korea to California in the 1980s and make the move to the rugged Ozark countryside in Little Rock Arkansas, with their two American-born children, a serious and mature girl named Anne (Noel Kate Cho) and a six-year-old named David (newcomer Alan S. Kim), in pursuit of their very own American Dream. Trying to run the 50 acre farm, working alongside as chicken ‘sexers’ ( segregating chicks as per their gender), and with a geriatric relative moving into their mobile home, the family find the going extremely tough and challenging. But then the American Dream wouldn’t be one if there was no honest hard-work and perseverance accompanying it…

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