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A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.

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A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

2.4K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Trivia
So Yong Kim's previous films, In Between Days (2006) and Na-moo-eobs-neun san (2008), both dealt with the repercussions of having absentee fathers. Here, she tackles a similar subject but this time from the point of view of the absentee father himself.

Quotes
Fred Butler: Um, well, I have some bad news... but/and good news. What would you like to hear first?
Joby Taylor: Umm... bad news.
Fred Butler: O-okay. So I spoke with Mr. Hamilton and explained your situation and what you want, and... he said no to your request.
Joby Taylor: Okay.
Fred Butler: There's more. He surmises that if you continue to drag this on, because, um... uh, you were supposed to sign today, and, uh... He said if you don't sign by tomorrow, they WILL take you to court.
Joby Taylor: Okay, and that, uh... affects the settlement money, right?
Fred Butler: Then there's no settlement deal.
Joby Taylor: Okay, so what's the good news?
Fred Butler: Well, um... my mom was wondering if you can come over for dinner.

Connections
References Cinq pièces faciles (1970)

Soundtracks
Für Elise
Written by Ludwig van Beethoven
As performed by Shaylena Mandigo
Arrangement used by permission of MakingMusicFin.net
A Wave Music Studio Company

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Featured review

2/10

Is no one going to talk about how the ending is totally ripped off from Five Easy Pieces?

Why would you do that? Why would you filch the ending from an all-time classic when it doesn't even make sense in your own story and it's anyway only going to underline how vastly inferior your film is?

It's strangely maddening to me. But at least, at the end of a hopelessly pointless film about a sad guy drifting around entirely uninterestingly, it reminds us that slice-of-life character studies like this can actually work.