Riceboy Sleeps
Release date: 2023-03-17
Votes: 48
Genres: Drama
In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.
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badelf
A rather creative, heart-warming coming-of-age film.
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