Set Me Free () is a 2014 South Korean autobiographical coming-of-age film directed by Kim Tae-yong. Choi Woo-shik won Actor of the Year at the 19th Busan International Film Festival, where the film also received the Citizen Critics' Award. Set Me Free was released in theaters on November 13, 2014, and drew 23,979 admissions.In South Korea, an independent film that reaches 10,000 admissions is already considered a success.
Plot Yeong-jae grew up at Isaac's Home, a group home where he was entrusted as a child by his immature and reckless father. Now a sixteen-year-old high school student, he is told that he is now too old to remain at the group home. Yeong-jae will do anything than return to his father, so to extend his stay, he lies that he wants to become a priest and enter a Catholic boarding school. In fact, Yeong-jae doesn't believe in God, having learned to rely only on himself, and even secretly steals then resells donated goods. To show his religious faith, he attends mass regularly while fawning over the facility director and curate. Beom-tae, Yeong-jae's only friend at the home, disapproves of this insincerity, but he also understands since he himself has reached the home's maximum age. Having found nowhere else to go, Yeong-jae gets so desperate to stay that in the face of the director's growing suspicion of him, Yeong-jae turns his back on Beom-tae. Then one day, his father visits the group home, this time to leave his younger brother Min-jae there, and Yeong-jae's rage and despair reaches its breaking point.
Cast Choi Woo-shik as Yeong-jae Kim Su-hyeon as Chang-won Jang Yoo-sang as Min-jae Kang Shin-chul as Director Shin Jae-ha as Beom-tae Park Joo-hee as Yoon-mi Lee Min-ah as Chang-won's mother-in-law Park Keun-rok as Curate Park Myung-shin as Yoon-mi's mother Kim Jae-hwa as Yeong-jae's mother Seo Gil-ja as Yeong-jae's aunt Yang Ik-june as Beom-tae's father Yoon Seung-hoon as Homeroom teacher Bang Eun-jung as Choir member Lee Jae-joon as Preacher
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient Result2014 Citizen Critics' Award Set Me Free Actor of the Year Choi Woo-shik 2015 Best New Actor Best New Director Kim Tae-yong Best New Actor Choi Woo-shik Best New Director Kim Tae-yong Best New Actor Choi Woo-shik Popular Actor Award
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