Oldboy

In 1993, the alcoholic Joseph "Joe" Doucett is a loathed man with basically one only friend, Chucky, who owns a bar. He neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. Out of the blue, Joe is kidnapped and locked alone in a room for twenty years. Along the years, he learns that Donna was brutally murdered and he was accused of the crime and Mia was adopted and raised by a family. Unexpectedly he is released without knowing who arrested him and why. He meets the humanitarian social assistant Marie Sebastian and his old friend Chucky and together they try to find the identity of his kidnapper. — • On a rainy night in 1993, the uncouth, alcohol-dependent advertising executive, Joe Doucett, finds himself under lock and key for no apparent reason. Confined in a squalid hotel room, Joe has spent the last two long and painful decades of his life trying to determine the reason behind his mysterious abduction when, just as inexplicably, his sadistic unknown captor decides to release him. Now, with a new set of combat skills; his pockets crammed with cash to get back on his feet, and burdened with some serious allegations against him, baffled Doucett embarks on a desperate quest to seek out answers, and hopefully, unearth the truth in the process. With every little enigma that he deciphers, Joe comes to understand what it feels like to lose everything. But, who is the mastermind behind Joe's endless torment? — Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) is an unsym...

Although his life is already in a downward spiral, things get much worse for advertising executive Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) ; while drunk one night, Joe is kidnapped and thrown into solitary confinement in a bizarre, hotellike room. For the next 20 years, Joe suffers unimaginable torment, but the motive and identity of his captor remain unknown. When he is inexplicably set free, Joe emerges with one goal: to find the person who stole two decades of his life. Show More • Rating: R (Language|Disturbing Images|Nudity|Some Graphic Sexuality|Strong Brutal Violence) • Genre: Mystery & thriller, Drama • Original Language: English • Director: • Producer: • Writer: • Release Date (Theaters): Nov 27, 2013 wide • Release Date (Streaming): Mar 4, 2014 • Box Office (Gross USA): $2.2M • Runtime: 1h 43m • Distributor: FilmDistrict • Production Co: Vertigo, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks The remake of the Korean mind fuck does not shy away from most of the unpleasant aspects of the original, but it's a leaner, less detailed version, which makes it somewhat easier to stomach. The result is sometimes unintentionally funny, sometimes brutal, but the mystery is engaging and the movie entertaining enough. In other words: if you know the original, you won't need this. If you don't, this might very well blow your mind.

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.

Because the Internet moves with the speed and ferocity of a hornet swarm, there's a chance that by the time you read this, Spike Lee's American remake of "Oldboy" will already have been stung to death. If so, too bad. This American version of Park Chan-Wook's Korean thriller is Lee's most exciting movie since " Like Park's version, "Oldboy" tells of a drunken, abusive lout named Joe Doucette ( As Joe, the alcoholic ad executive, Brolin is a raw nerve at first—a bloated and haggard man whose smile and laugh are false. From certain angles he looks and sounds like the young Where the film's first half is a Kafka-esque fable of guilt and punishment, the second is a riff on the criminal revenge flick, with Joe working his way through the underbelly of a New York City that's been reimagined as a landscape of the mind. He joins up with a drug clinic worker played by Lee restages some famous (or infamous) moments from the original, including the hammer fight, pictured here as a more elaborately choreographed scene that unfolds over two levels of a warehouse populated by criminals and ruled by a glowering boss played by It's worth pointing out here that Park's film is not an original story, but an adaptation of a Japanese At its wooziest, Lee's direction reminded me of The big problem with Lee's "Oldboy" is that for all its dark confidence, it doesn't reimagine the original boldly enough. This isn't like That's not a bad thing, though, when you consider the current climate for main...

S ixteen years ago, Park Chan-wook gave us this gobsmackingly horrible but demonically inspired thriller, based on the Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya, which came to epitomise the “Asia extreme” genre: a new frontier of extravagantly violent craziness. Since then, Park has advanced creatively by retreating into more conventional forms, most prominently with his masterly The film has consolidated its cult status, more or less undamaged by

• العربية • Azərbaycanca • বাংলা • Български • Català • Čeština • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Ελληνικά • Español • Euskara • فارسی • Fiji Hindi • Français • Galego • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • ಕನ್ನಡ • ქართული • Limburgs • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • Nederlands • 日本語 • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Simple English • Slovenčina • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Suomi • Svenska • తెలుగు • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • 中文 Running time 120 minutes Country South Korea Language Korean Budget $3 million Box office $15.4 million Oldboy ( 올드보이; Oldeuboi; Oldŭboi) is a 2003 South Korean Oldboy attained critical acclaim and accolades worldwide, including winning the Oldboy is a "powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare". Oldboy is regarded as Plot [ ] In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is arrested for public drunkenness, causing him to miss his daughter's fourth birthday. After his friend Joo-hwan picks him up from the In 2003, Dae-su is suddenly released after being sedated and Dae-su learns the hotel is a At his Some time later, Dae-su locates the hypnotist and writes to her requesting that she Cast [ ] This section needs expansion. You can help by ( November 2018) The corridor fight scene took seventeen takes in three days to perfect and was one The script originally called for full male frontal nudity, but Yoo Ji-tae changed his mind after the scene...

Running time 104 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $30 million Box office $5.2 million Oldboy is a 2013 American It was released in the US on November 27, 2013, by Plot [ ] In 1993, Over the next 20 years, he quits drinking and works himself into shape, intent on escaping and getting revenge. He compiles a list of all those who would want to imprison him, and writes letters to eventually give to Mia. One day he sees an interview with Mia, who says she would forgive her father if she ever saw him. Joe is drugged shortly thereafter, and wakes to find himself outside with a cell phone and several thousand dollars. He sees the woman with the yellow umbrella and gives chase, but ends up running into Marie Sebastian, a nurse who offers to help him. He refuses but takes her business card. He goes to his bar-owner friend Chucky, and explains what has transpired. While there, Joe gets a call on the cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. Joe spends a great deal of effort to determine if any of the men on his list are the Stranger, but they all prove to be innocent. He collapses from dehydration, and Chucky calls Marie to help. While Joe recovers, Marie is taken emotionally by Joe's letters to Mia, and offers to help him further. She helps him identify the Chinese restaurant where some of his food came from while he was imprisoned. Joe follows a delivery from the restaurant to the warehouse where he was imprisoned, and meets Chaney, its o...