5.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Leaving Mom (2025)
Leaving Mom (2025)
Overview
Leaving Mom is a 2025 Vietnamese-Korean drama directed by Mo Hong-jin. Tuan Tran stars as Hoan, a poor street barber in Vietnam caring for his mother Le Thi Hanh (Hong Dao), who suffers from dementia, while his own health declines. Jung Il-woo plays his brother Jeong-min. The film marks the first 50/50 co-production between the two countries.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
5.5
Overview
Leaving Mom is a 2025 Vietnamese-Korean drama directed by Mo Hong-jin. Tuan Tran stars as Hoan, a poor street barber in Vietnam caring for his mother Le Thi Hanh (Hong Dao), who suffers from dementia, while his own health declines. Jung Il-woo plays his brother Jeong-min. The film marks the first 50/50 co-production between the two countries.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's focus on the challenges of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's through individual and family efforts presents an apolitical narrative centered on universal human experiences. This emphasis on personal responsibility and familial bonds without ideological critique determines its neutral stance.
The film employs an East Asian cast blending Vietnamese and Korean performers in roles aligned with the story's cultural settings. It incorporates a positively framed LGBTQ+ supporting character and addresses caregiving burdens on family members, alongside mental health and poverty challenges, through a melodrama lens.
Secondary
Filial caregiving emerges as an overwhelming burden in the mother-son dynamic, critiquing traditional obligations through desperate measures and moral dilemmas about abandonment or seeking external aid. This nuanced questioning of family norms drives a progressive leaning in the narrative.
The film depicts a family drama focused on filial duty and caregiving without any LGBTQ+ characters or themes, offering no portrayal in this dimension.
The film contains no identifiable transgender characters or themes.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Leaving Mom presents original characters created for the film, with no adaptations from source material or historical figures that establish prior genders, yielding no instances of gender swaps.
Leaving Mom presents original characters in a contemporary Vietnamese family drama, with no adaptation from prior source material establishing canonical races. The cast, including Vietnamese actors for lead roles, aligns with the depicted ethnicities without mismatches.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
4.7
Critic Ratings
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