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Toxic Parents

2023 · 104 min Drama Thriller Mystery
7.5 / 10 · TMDB

Yoo-ri, a model student from a privileged home, takes her own life, shattering her mother Hye-young's world. While detectives rule it a suicide, Hye-young is convinced her daughter's classmate Ye-na and homeroom teacher Gi-beom are murderers. Her relentless, grief-driven investigation peels back layers of adolescent secrets and schoolyard politics, where every testimony conflicts. As the police probe deeper, they uncover that the most profound fractures in Yoo-ri's heart were inflicted by Hye-young herself, a mother utterly blinded by the belief her smothering control was the purest form of love.

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Original Title 독친
Year 2023
Country South Korea
Genre Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Director Kim Su-in
Runtime 104 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.5/10 (6 votes)

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The film is a taut, unsettling hybrid of family drama and psychological thriller, where the central mystery isn't the death itself, but the warped nature of a love that suffocates. It refuses easy villains, compelling viewers to grapple with a mother whose grief is both profound and pathological.

What lingers after the credits is a chilling meditation on the invisible violence of expectation. It's a stark examination of how parental perfectionism can become a poison, and the devastating cost paid by the child meant to fulfill a borrowed dream. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Kim Su-in

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The suffocating quiet of a perfect home, thick with unspoken blame.

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