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Blue Bayou
2021
· Movie
· 117 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Every rating
58–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 66, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou is facing deportation because he was never formally adopted as a child. He lives a simple life with his wife and stepdaughter, but the threat of being torn from his family looms large. He fights the legal system to remain in the only country he has ever known, the United States.
Details
- Director
- Justin Chon
- Writer
- Justin Chon
- Studio
- Entertainment One, MACRO, Focus Features
- Released
- 10 September 2021
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $750.0K
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