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Girl Scout (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Girl Scout' is a 2008 South Korean action comedy film directed by Kim Sang-man.
Plot
Set in Bongcheon-3 dong, a deprived area in Seoul, four women are struggling financially. They are I-man (Na Moon-hee), a woman in her 60s working at a supermarket to look after her unemployed son; Bong-soon (Lee Kyung-sil), a widow who lives with an ill child; Mi-kyung (Kim Sun-a), a divorcee; and Eun-ji (Go Joon-hee), a caddie. They are determined to raise the money to open up a store in their neighborhood, and it is their sole hope and dream. But things get much worse when Hye-ran (Im Ji-eun), the head of their credit union, runs off with their life savings. Desperate, they create a team called 'Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3' to recover the stolen money, and chaos ensues.
Cast
* Kim Sun-a ... Choi Mi-kyung
* Na Moon-hee ... Lee I-man
* Lee Kyung-sil ... Oh Bong-soon
* Go Joon-hee ... Kang Eun-ji
* Park Won-sang ... Min Hong-gi
* Im Ji-eun ... Seong Hye-ran
* Ryu Tae-joon ... Lee Jong-dae
* Choi Jung-woo ... Director Han
* Park Hyuk-kwon ... Beom-seok
* Kim Hyang-gi ... Yoon-i, Mi-kyeong's daughter
* Yeojin Jeon ... waitress
* Yang Gi-won ... Lee I-man's son
* Jeong Mi-seong ... supermarket manager
* Yeo Min-goo ... Han-seo Capital employee
* Jeong Se-hyeong ... security employee
Release
'Girl Scout' was released in South Korea on June 5, 2008, after the postponement of its planned earlier release in April.[http://www.hancinema.net/where-are-all-the-actresses--13290.html "Where are all the actresses?]. 'Hancinema'. 3 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-13. On its opening weekend it was ranked fifth at the box office, grossing and receiving 163,122 admissions.[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/korea/?yr=2008&wk=23&p=.htm "South Korea Box Office June 68, 2008"]. 'Box Office Mojo'. Retrieved 2008-07-13. It eventually grossed , with total admissions at 249,114.
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