Movie
Riceboy Sleeps
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2023-03-17
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Lonesome Heroes Productions, A Lasting Dose Productions, Kind Stranger Productions
- Country
- Canada
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Choi Seung-yoon as So-Young
- Ethan Hwang as Dong-Hyun
- Dohyun Noel Hwang as Child Dong-Hyun
- Anthony Shim as Simon
- Hunter Dillon as Harry
- Jerina Son as Mi-Sun
- Kang In-sung as Won-Shik / In-Shik
- Choi Jong-ryul as Grandpa
- Lee Yong-nyeo as Grandma
- Kendra Anderson as Miss Jane
- Elizabeth Wainwright Molinares as Child Ashley
- Sawyer Proulx as Stewart
Crew
- Anthony Shim - Director
- Anthony Shim - Writer
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