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Beasts Clawing at Straws
MEANRANK
71/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 49, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94. Critics average 94, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A bag of cash connects the fates of several desperate individuals, including a struggling sauna employee, a corrupt customs officer, and a bar hostess. Their greed leads them into a violent, twisting narrative of double-crosses as they all claw for a way out of their bleak circumstances.
Details
- Director
- Kim Yong-hoon
- Writer
- Kim Yong-hoon
- Studio
- BA Entertainment, Plus M Entertainment
- Released
- 19 February 2020
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Box office
- $5.7M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 41st Blue Dragon Film Awards 2021 | Best Leading Actress | Jeon Do-yeon | Nominee |
| 41st Blue Dragon Film Awards 2021 | Best Editing | Han Mi-yeon | Winner |
| 41st Blue Dragon Film Awards 2021 | Best New Actress | Shin Hyun-been | Nominee |
| 10th AACTA Awards 2020 | Best Asian Film | Beasts Clawing at Straws | Nominee |
| 22nd Far East Film Festival 2020 | Special Honorable Mention - White Mulberry Award | Beasts Clawing at Straws | Winner |
| 29th Buil Film Awards 2020 | Best Actress | Jeon Do-yeon | Nominee |
| 29th Buil Film Awards 2020 | Best Actor | Jung Woo-sung | Nominee |
| 40th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2020 | Top 10 Films | Beasts Clawing at Straws | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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11 awards — Beasts Clawing at Straws
×| Best Editing | Han Mi-yeon | Winner |
| Best Leading Actress | Jeon Do-yeon | Nominee |
| Best New Actress | Shin Hyun-been | Nominee |
| Special Honorable Mention - White Mulberry Award | Beasts Clawing at Straws | Winner |
| Top 10 Films | Beasts Clawing at Straws | Winner |
| Tiger Competition – Special Jury Award | Beasts Clawing at Straws | Winner |
| Best Editing | Han Mi-yeon | Winner |
| Best Producer | Jang Won-seok | Winner |
| Best Actor | Jung Woo-sung | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Jeon Do-yeon | Nominee |
| Best Asian Film | Beasts Clawing at Straws | Nominee |