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* TheCaper: A G-rated version, as three rambunctious elementary school students create an intricate plot to steal a fancy dog. (Luring Wolly out with dog treats is key.)
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* ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: Soo-young has grand plans to bulldoze the restaurant and build a big apartment tower and development on the land. He's frustrated by his aunt's refusal. He is given to staring at the model of the mixed-use complex he'd like to build.
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* TheStinger: After the credits start rolling, a pop-up window scene reveals that Jeong-heon has managed to make enough money selling pizza box lunches, using the van as a pop-up restaurant, to earn her and her kids a home. And Soo-young's aunt decided to forgive him and let him come back to work, although he won't get to build his dream apartment complex.
* ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: Soo-young has grand plans to bulldoze the restaurant and build a big apartment tower and development on the land. He's frustrated by his aunt's refusal. He is given to staring at the model of the mixed-use complex he'd like tobuild.build.
* WantedPoster: Wanted posters for lost dogs give Ji-so her idea. At the end, she puts up a sort of reverse wanted poster for her DisappearedDad, reassuring him that they're fine.
* ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: Soo-young has grand plans to bulldoze the restaurant and build a big apartment tower and development on the land. He's frustrated by his aunt's refusal. He is given to staring at the model of the mixed-use complex he'd like to
* WantedPoster: Wanted posters for lost dogs give Ji-so her idea. At the end, she puts up a sort of reverse wanted poster for her DisappearedDad, reassuring him that they're fine.
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* NoNameGiven: The rich old lady with the dog is never named. The credits list her as "Lady Marcel" (Marcel is the name of the restaurant).
* TheProblemWithPenIsland: Ji-so interprets the sentence "$500 per square" to mean that houses on Per Square cost $500.
* TheProblemWithPenIsland: Ji-so interprets the sentence "$500 per square" to mean that houses on Per Square cost $500.
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* CallBack: Practically the only bit of luxury that Jeong-heon has managed to hang on to, as she and her children have been reduced to living in a van, is a fancy pair of high-heeled shoes. Towards the end Ji-so opens up the shoebox and finds a scribbled note from her father, apologizing to Jeong-heon for being a bad husband and father and promising to come back in a week (it's been much longer than a week).
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* DisappearedDad: Ji-so's father, bankrupted, has abandoned their family and vanished.
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As chance would have it, Ji-so's mom was just fired from her job as a waitress, at a restaurant owned by a bitchy old lady--who happens to have a cute little dog.
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As chance would have it, Ji-so's mom was just fired from her job as a waitress, at a restaurant owned by a bitchy old lady--who happens to have a cute little dog.
dog named Wolly.
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* AdaptationalSettingUpdate: The film is based on an American children's book by Barbara O'Connor, which was set in North Carolina.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: First there's Ji-so's scheme to kidnap a dog and collect the ransom. At the same time, the old lady's nephew Soo-young, after finding out that the old lady is leaving her whole fortune to the dog instead of him, decides to kidnap and kill the dog. Hilarity ensues.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: First there's Ji-so's scheme to kidnap a dog and collect the ransom. At the same time, the old lady's nephew Soo-young, after finding out that the old lady is leaving her whole fortune to the dog instead of him, decides to kidnap and kill the dog. Hilarity ensues.
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* AdaptationalSettingUpdate: AnimatedCreditsOpening: Starts with a cartoon, accompanied by Ji-so's narration, telling Aesop's fable of "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frightened_Hares The film Hares and the Frogs]]." Ji-so rejects that fable's moral, that there's always someone worse off, believing that her life is based on an American children's book by Barbara O'Connor, which pretty darn bad at the moment.
* AnswerCut: As the two girls talk about kidnapping Wolly, Ji-seok asks "Did you find a place to keep him?" Cut to a crude cardboard doghouse that the kids constructed.
* CaptainErsatz: Apparently Ji-so's missing father wasset in North Carolina.
trying to run a pizza business called "Pizza Huk".
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: First there's Ji-so's scheme to kidnap a dog and collect the ransom. At the same time, the old lady's nephew Soo-young, after finding out that the old lady is leaving her whole fortune to the dog instead of him, decides to kidnap and kill the dog. Hilarityensues.ensues.
* DramaticIrony: Ji-so's teacher approaches her about having a birthday party at her house (this apparently being something that schoolteachers organize in South Korea). The teacher says it's becoming very common to have birthday parties at home, cheerfully explaining "Who doesn't have a house nowadays?" Ji-so, of course, lives in a van.
* InstructionalTitle: ''How to Steal a Dog''
* RightBehindMe: Soo-young is ranting about how his aunt is both miserly and stuck in her ways. Naturally, her aunt comes up behind her and gets an earful.
* SettingUpdate: The film is based on an American children's book by Barbara O'Connor, which was set in North Carolina.
* ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: Soo-young has grand plans to bulldoze the restaurant and build a big apartment tower and development on the land. He's frustrated by his aunt's refusal. He is given to staring at the model of the mixed-use complex he'd like to build.
* AnswerCut: As the two girls talk about kidnapping Wolly, Ji-seok asks "Did you find a place to keep him?" Cut to a crude cardboard doghouse that the kids constructed.
* CaptainErsatz: Apparently Ji-so's missing father was
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: First there's Ji-so's scheme to kidnap a dog and collect the ransom. At the same time, the old lady's nephew Soo-young, after finding out that the old lady is leaving her whole fortune to the dog instead of him, decides to kidnap and kill the dog. Hilarity
* DramaticIrony: Ji-so's teacher approaches her about having a birthday party at her house (this apparently being something that schoolteachers organize in South Korea). The teacher says it's becoming very common to have birthday parties at home, cheerfully explaining "Who doesn't have a house nowadays?" Ji-so, of course, lives in a van.
* InstructionalTitle: ''How to Steal a Dog''
* RightBehindMe: Soo-young is ranting about how his aunt is both miserly and stuck in her ways. Naturally, her aunt comes up behind her and gets an earful.
* SettingUpdate: The film is based on an American children's book by Barbara O'Connor, which was set in North Carolina.
* ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: Soo-young has grand plans to bulldoze the restaurant and build a big apartment tower and development on the land. He's frustrated by his aunt's refusal. He is given to staring at the model of the mixed-use complex he'd like to build.
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''How to Steal a Dog'' is a 2014 film from South Korea directed by Kim Sung-ho.
Ji-so is a 10-year-old girl. She is homeless, living in a pizza delivery truck with her mother Jeong-heon and little brother Ji-seok. In the backstory her father abandoned the family, the pizza delivery business having been a failure. Her mother is working odd jobs in a desperate effort to keep the three of them from starving, but their existence is precarious.
Ji-so spots a real estate flier advertising homes for $500 "per square" (meter). She interprets that to mean that there is a place called Per Square where houses cost five hundred bucks. So Ji-so, helped by her brother and by her enthusiastic classmate Chae-rang, set out to find a way to get $500. When she sees a flier advertising a $500 reward for a lost dog, Ji-so has an idea: steal a dog from a rich person, return it, and collect a reward.
As chance would have it, Ji-so's mom was just fired from her job as a waitress, at a restaurant owned by a bitchy old lady--who happens to have a cute little dog.
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* AdaptationalSettingUpdate: The film is based on an American children's book by Barbara O'Connor, which was set in North Carolina.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: First there's Ji-so's scheme to kidnap a dog and collect the ransom. At the same time, the old lady's nephew Soo-young, after finding out that the old lady is leaving her whole fortune to the dog instead of him, decides to kidnap and kill the dog. Hilarity ensues.
Ji-so is a 10-year-old girl. She is homeless, living in a pizza delivery truck with her mother Jeong-heon and little brother Ji-seok. In the backstory her father abandoned the family, the pizza delivery business having been a failure. Her mother is working odd jobs in a desperate effort to keep the three of them from starving, but their existence is precarious.
Ji-so spots a real estate flier advertising homes for $500 "per square" (meter). She interprets that to mean that there is a place called Per Square where houses cost five hundred bucks. So Ji-so, helped by her brother and by her enthusiastic classmate Chae-rang, set out to find a way to get $500. When she sees a flier advertising a $500 reward for a lost dog, Ji-so has an idea: steal a dog from a rich person, return it, and collect a reward.
As chance would have it, Ji-so's mom was just fired from her job as a waitress, at a restaurant owned by a bitchy old lady--who happens to have a cute little dog.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalSettingUpdate: The film is based on an American children's book by Barbara O'Connor, which was set in North Carolina.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: First there's Ji-so's scheme to kidnap a dog and collect the ransom. At the same time, the old lady's nephew Soo-young, after finding out that the old lady is leaving her whole fortune to the dog instead of him, decides to kidnap and kill the dog. Hilarity ensues.
