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Comedy, Drama • 2026 • 100 min

A Korean mother flies from Seoul to Winnipeg after her daughter falls into a coma, then decides the best medicine is a catfished husband. The comedy-drama that follows is really about what happens when immigrant parental control meets a daughter's actual life, including a girlfriend the mother did not plan for. The film earns a Leans Progressive label through its central arc: Sara begins as a meddling traditionalist armed with patriarchal assumptions, and the story treats her shift toward acceptance of her daughter's queer relationship and independence as the emotional payoff. Cultural clash and immigrant family dynamics add texture, but acceptance and personal growth do the ideological heavy lifting here.
Kim Ho-jung • Lee Won-jae • Jonathan Kim
A Korean mother flies from Seoul to Winnipeg after her daughter falls into a coma, then decides the best medicine is a catfished husband. The comedy-drama that follows is really about what happens when immigrant parental control meets a daughter's actual life, including a girlfriend the mother did not plan for. The film earns a Leans Progressive label through its central arc: Sara begins as a meddling traditionalist armed with patriarchal assumptions, and the story treats her shift toward acceptance of her daughter's queer relationship and independence as the emotional payoff. Cultural clash and immigrant family dynamics add texture, but acceptance and personal growth do the ideological heavy lifting here.
Kim Ho-jung • Lee Won-jae • Jonathan Kim
The central conflict of an overbearing Korean immigrant mother imposing traditional expectations on her Canadian daughter resolves through the mother's personal growth, humility, and eventual embrace of her daughter's independence and queer relationship, anchoring the rating in the progressive valence of immigrant family stories and acceptance narratives.
The movie features a predominantly Korean and Asian Canadian cast in lead roles telling a story of immigrant family dynamics and personal growth. It includes elements of cultural clash and acceptance of non-traditional relationships but frames these within the specific experiences of the characters rather than broader critiques.
The film depicts the Korean-Canadian mother Sara learning to accept her comatose daughter Sumi’s relationship with girlfriend Amaya. This acceptance forms part of Sara’s broader personal growth from meddling traditionalist to more open-minded parent, framing the queer element affirmatively within a story of familial understanding.
The film centers on an overbearing Korean immigrant mother who initially schemes to arrange a traditional heterosexual marriage for her comatose daughter but learns to accept her daughter's independence, same-sex relationship, and chosen support network, framing the mother's growth toward open-mindedness and away from patriarchal assumptions as positive.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film, which centers on a Korean mother's evolving relationship with her daughter and the daughter's female partner in a queer relationship.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Original screenplay with all named characters created for this film; no adaptations, legacy roles, or historical figures involved.
Original screenplay with all new characters in a contemporary story about Korean immigrants in Canada; no adaptations, legacy roles, or historical figures involved.
Not depicted in the film.
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