Riceboy Sleeps

Mar 17, 2023

1h 57m

★ 7.3

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Lonesome Heroes Productions

A Lasting Dose Productions

Kind Stranger Productions

Riceboy Sleeps Trailers

Cast

So-young

Choi Seung-yoon

Dong-hyun

Ethan Hwang

Child Dong-hyun

Dohyun Noel Hwang

Simon

Anthony Shim

Harry

Hunter Dillon

Mi-sun

Jerina Son

Won-shik / In-shik

Kang In-sung

Grandpa

Choi Jong-ryul

Grandma

Lee Yong-nyeo

Ashley

Vanessa Przada

Jackson

Tristan Ranger

Eggers

Aiden Finn

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.

6.9

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

May 13, 1919

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

7.8

Do the Right Thing

Jun 14, 1989

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

7.3

Gangs of New York

Dec 14, 2002

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

6.1

Under Capricorn

Sep 8, 1949

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to help her conquer her demons and return her life to normal.

0.0

Bloody Dusk

Jan 1, 1995

No overview available.

0.0

Transnational Plunder

Jan 1, 1995

No overview available.

6.7

Her Way

Dec 8, 2021

Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raising her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of a brighter future for him, she decides to enrol him in one of the best cooking schools in France.

0.0

Comedy of Divorce

Jul 1, 1992

No overview available.

7.6

Changeling

Oct 24, 2008

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

0.0

To Kill The Lonely Dragon

Oct 19, 2024

A burnout theatre student finds himself in a fantasy realm materialized by the nighttime stories his mother used to tell him every night as a child.

4.6

Your Caresses

Nov 6, 1969

Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.

0.0

The Summer of Walter Hacks

Jun 21, 2009

Eleven year old Walter Hacks is a farm boy in 1952. Between milking cows, haying fields and working on farm equipment he finds he has to grow up faster than he should have to. His love of western movies and his imagination take him on adventures where he meets the many interesting neighbors in his seemingly quiet hometown.

7.0

Bambi

Aug 14, 1942

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

7.7

Mississippi Burning

Dec 8, 1988

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

7.2

Crash

May 6, 2005

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

7.4

A Time to Kill

Jul 24, 1996

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

0.0

Tree House

Nov 19, 2016

All summer long, four teenagers gather illegally in a military zone to build a hut. But school will soon begin again and the golden days of cabin-building are coming to an end.