If you loved Miracle in Cell No. 7's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Mid-Century Modern delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.
Miracle in Cell No. 7
A developmentally disabled man is wrongly convicted of murder and thrown into prison, where his cellmates — a gang of career criminals — become his unlikely family and help him smuggle in his six-year-old daughter. Lee Hwan-kyung's film is Korean cinema's most beloved comedy-drama: relentlessly funny about prison ensemble dynamics and absolutely devastating about the injustice underneath. Holds the record as the most-watched Korean film of all time for years after release. The comedy of unlikely men becoming a family is as warm as anything in the genre.
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