Du-na Bae,
Yo-weon Lee,
Ok Ji-yeong,
Eun-sil Lee,
Eun-ju Lee
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Five girlfriends graduate high school in the Korean port city of Inchon. They set out to pursue their limited opportunities, vowing to continue their friendship into adult life. Hae-joo (Lee Yo-Won) i... read more
DVD Release Date: July 6, 2004
Stats: 126 reviews
Multidimensional, coming-of-age drama about the evolving friendship between five female high school friends in the port city of Incheon, Korea who have high hopes of staying close but the harsh realities of work, family, and finding their place in the world get in the way while k... read more
A refreshingly touching film about friendship which doesn't turn all sappy and cringeworthy. Highlights the division of friends as they adapt into adulthood with a lot of spirit and a slow paced but enticing script. Wonderful performances bring the characters and their relationsh... read more
A sweet if somewhat conventional coming of age drama. Young women usually don't get treated with this much empathy in cinema. And those were some real cute Korean chicks.
I thought of the premise of the transition into adulthood was very promising, however despite a solid beginning the film became less and less interesting as most of the characters are reduced to archetypes. I would have preferred more focus on the troubled girl and her friendshi... read more
The problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving, and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy, pretty and gifted, it really won my heart. Full Review
Jae-eun Jeong's Take Care of My Cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant, expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of... Full Review
Take Care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses, but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length. Full Review
The episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life. But the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored.
A world in small, subtly acknowledging larger economic and cultural forces one moment, and in the next patiently observing the way a bowl of medicinal tea, seen turning in a microwave carousel, begins... Full Review
A sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women.
As it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends, it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them. Full Review
Jeong's women often interact via cell phone messaging, and one of the film's primary themes arises in the way contemporary relationships exist through wireless communication. Full Review
["Take Care of My Cat"] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban South Korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals. Full Review
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