Gook
[Available Jan. 24 via streaming on MUBI.] Justin Chon's engaging, black-and-white, well-acted, down-to-earth, somber, 95-minute, 2017 film in which two Korean-American brothers (Justin Chon and David So) who have their own dreams apart from struggling to make money and to protect their women's shoe store in California that they inherited from their father while dealing with a grumpy liquor store owner (Sang Chon), befriending a mischievous 11-year-old Black girl (Simone Baker), and confronting racist, thieving neighborhood thugs (Curtiss Cook Jr., et al.) amidst the anger-fueled riots in South Central Los Angeles in 1992.
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