Leaving Mom

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Leaving Mom

Aug 2025

2h 5m

Drama

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A young street barber caring for his mother with late-stage Alzheimer's disease finds himself torn between love and exhaustion as her condition worsens. In a final attempt to give her the care she deserves, he travels to South Korea in hopes of leaving his mom with the half-brother he's never met, before time and memory slip away from them both.

Sarah Vincent

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Sep 8

While unflinching in its portrait of a mother and son with physical and mental limitations and no resources trying to manage each other’s health problems, it veers towards a happy ending that dismisses everything that came before

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Carla Hay

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Aug 30

Leaving Mom can get a little overstuffed with its two major storylines about caregiving for a parent with dementia and looking for a long-lost family member. However, this drama has very good performances, even if some of the scenes veer into triteness.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Aug 24

6.5

While “Leaving Mom” has minor issues, the emotional weight, social commentary, strong performances, and dual settings make it a movie worth watching. Fans of melodrama are likely to find it particularly compelling.

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Teja Lam

Sep 14

I did not go to movie forgot to cancel

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Ellen Nguyen

Sep 10

It’s really good movie, I like it

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ivy

Sep 9

About family and great movie

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Tammy L

Sep 7

What a phenomenal movie. I wish I could give 10 stars for this movie. I cried the whole movie and my parents loved it as well!

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Yen

Sep 4

Love this! Look forward to more Viet Korean movies in the future.

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MT

Sep 2

Beautiful, heart wrenching.

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Synopsis

A young street barber caring for his mother with late-stage Alzheimer's disease finds himself torn between love and exhaustion as her condition worsens. In a final attempt to give her the care she deserves, he travels to South Korea in hopes of leaving his mom with the half-brother he's never met, before time and memory slip away from them both.

Director: Mo Hong-jin
Producer: Phan Gia Nhat Linh, Kim Dae Kuen, Choi Yuno
Screenwriter: Mo Hong-jin
Distributor: Eastern Edge Films
Production Co: Sidus
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Vietnamese
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 2h 5m