Release date: January 2010
Jung-hae gives birth to a baby boy, Min-woo, while serving ten years in prison for killing her abusive husband. She raises her son for the first year and a half allowed by law before having to give him up for adoption. Her cellmates include a couple odd women, a dignified music professor, and eventually the new-con-on-the-block with a big chip on her shoulder. Jung-hae sets out to organize her fellow convicts into a choir, enlisting the help of her cellmates. If she is successful, she is promised a reunion with her son.
A contrived, sloppy tearjerker … but engaging nonetheless. Contrived, in that the group of women assembled to make a choir first create a cacophony that no group of human beings on earth would likely make, all so that they can “improve” during the film into a great bunch of singers. Hey, they could have just been bad and improved, this was over the top. Sloppy, watch the mouths of the singers, they NEVER are in sync with the lyrics anytime in the film. Maybe the director thought it wouldn’t be noticeable but it was and could have easily been prevented. Tearjerker as the sweet little old lady convict gets executed. Still, we got caught up in the story and ran overtime, something we rarely do, but no one noticed. My take: C
One big happy cellblock family: the four cellmates and the baby first
meet the new girl (Park Joon-myeong, Jeong Soo-yeong,
Nah Moon-hee, Kim Yoon-jin, and Lee Tae-kyeong).
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