Blue Bayou (2021)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 117 minuten
Country:
United States / Canada
Directed by: Justin Chon
Stars: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander and Mark O'Brien
IMDb score:
7,1 (11.701)
Releasedate: 10 September 2021
Blue Bayou plot
"It's not where you're from. It's where you belong."
The Korean Antonio was raised in Louisiana by his adoptive parents. When there is a sudden threat of expulsion for him, he is confronted with his origins. Both his future and that of his family, consisting of his wife Kathy and daughter Jessie, in the United States is uncertain.
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Actors and actresses
Antonio LeBlanc
Kathy LeBlanc
Ace
Parker Nguyen
Jessie LeBlanc
Barry Boucher
Denny
Dawn Landry
Merk
Quentin aka Q
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mrklm
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Antonio LeBlanc [Justin Chon] is desperate for a better paying job to support his wife Kathy [Alicia Vikander] and their soon-to-be child, but his criminal record keeps him out of the loop. On top of that, he has to deal with Kathy's ex and cop Ace [Mark O'Brien] who demands to see his daughter [Sydney Kowalske]. When Ace and his partner Denny [Emory Cohen] find an excuse to arrest Antonio, it turns out that he could be deported to Korea on the basis of a clerical error. Antonio and Kathy seek help from lawyer Barry Boucher [Vondie Curtis-Hall] who makes it clear that Antonio only has a chance of staying if he can find many people willing to stand up for him at the hearing. The credits make it clear that we are dealing with an existing problem that many adopted children have fallen victim to and may explain why Vikander decided to cooperate with this project. However, good intentions do not make a good film and after a reasonable first half hour it plunges like Wile E. Coyote into a deep ravine and cannot escape from it. Chon's screenplay is already extremely melodramatic and his direction is as subtle as a sledgehammer. The denouement is not to be seen.
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scorsese
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Reasonable film about a man who is faced with a possible deportation because he was adopted. The main character is well developed, but the rest of the characters are somewhat clichéd. This rather heavy film certainly has some good moments (often the small ones), but the melodramatic aspect comes into play a bit too often.
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Movsin
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The epilogue makes it clear once again: the film wants to draw attention to the injustice that lies in the deportation of people who have been adopted and lived in the States for years to their country of origin, which most of them have hardly known.
Unfortunately the movie is crammed full of side stories and situations, each sadder than the next, all doom and gloom or even ridiculous, like the six-year-old girl throwing angry, jealous looks, as an adult, when her little sister is born...
Thus unbalanced with often too sentimental and bland dialogues.
Disappointment.
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