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How to Steal a Dog
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Wikipedia article
'How to Steal a Dog' (; lit. "The Perfect Way to Steal a Dog") is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Kim Sung-ho, based on the novel of the same name by Barbara O'Connor.
Plot
Ten-year-old Ji-so lives in a van with her mother Jeong-hyeon and younger brother Ji-seok. Her father disappeared after their pizza business went bankrupt. When she sees a missing dog poster with a five-hundred-dollar reward, Ji-so naively believes that that amount of money would be enough to buy her family a house. So she hatches a plan with her friend Chae-rang to find a dog with a rich owner, steal it, then return the dog by pretending to have found it and get the reward. Their target is Wolly, the dog of an old rich lady who owns the restaurant where Ji-so's mom works. While undertaking their "perfect" plan, they befriend Dae-po, a homeless man who ends up living in the abandoned building where they've stashed the dog. But someone else is after Wolly: Soo-young, the old lady's nephew, who'll stop at nothing to gain his aunt's inheritance. In the end, Ji-so and her family do not appear to get a house but the mother takes her son's idea and starts a business from the van and Ji-so learns to be happy with what she has. It seems Soo-young may become homeless after his aunt discovers his duplicity but they later reconcile.
Cast
*Lee Re as Ji-so
*Lee Ji-won as Chae-rang
*Kim Hye-ja as Old lady
*Choi Min-soo as Dae-po
*Kang Hye-jung as Jeong-hyeon
*Lee Chun-hee as Soo-young
*Lee Hong-gi as Seok-gu
*Lee Ki-young as Director Park
*Jo Eun-ji as Chae-rang's mother
*Tablo
*Kim Won-hyo as Traffic policeman
*Kim Jae-hwa as Homeroom teacher
*Hong Eun-taek as Ji-seok
*Kim Do-yeop as Min-seob
*Sam Hammington
Awards and nominations
References
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