UK Broker (Blu-ray Special Edition) (Picture House Entertainment) [UK]

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Jul 15, 2014
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Release date: June 5, 2023
Purchase links: Amazon UK - HMV - Zavvi
Price: £14.99 (Amazon - HMV) - £20.99 (Zavvi)

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On a rainy night in Busan, So-young (Lee 'IU' Ji-eun) leaves her baby Woo-sung outside a 'baby box', a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. Instead, he's picked up by Sang-hyun (Parasite's Song Kang-ho) who runs an unofficial adoption brokerage and plans to find him a new home. So-young tracks down both Sang-hyun and his business partner Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) and decides to join their pursuit (alongside a seven-year-old stowaway from a nearby orphanage), but as they search for Woo-sung's new family, the unlikely group evolves into something of a family themselves - unaware they're being tailed by two detectives (Bae Doona, Lee Joo-young) who are determined to stop them. Heartwarming, funny and moving, BROKER is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters.