Anchor (film)

2022 South Korean thriller film

Anchor

Theatrical release poster

Hangul|

RR| Aengkeo
MR| Aengk'ŏ
Directed by| Jung Ji-yeon
Screenplay by| Jung Ji-yeon
Starring|

* Chun Woo-hee
* Shin Ha-kyun
* Lee Hye-young

Production
companies

Insight Film
About Film

Distributed by| Ace Maker Movie Works[1]

Release date

* April 20, 2022 (2022-04-20)

Running time

| 111 minutes
Country| South Korea
Language| Korean
Box office| US$1.3 million[2]

Anchor (Korean: 앵커) is a 2022 South Korean mystery-thriller film directed by Jung Ji-yeon. It stars Chun Woo-hee, Shin Ha-kyun and Lee Hye-young, and was released on April 20.[3]

## Plot

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Jung Se-ra is a highly competitive and ambitious newsanchor who lives with her domineering mother So-jeong. So-jeong pressures Se-ra to be a successful news anchor much like herself in the past during her glory days in front of the camera at the cost of Se-ra mental health and her relationship with her husband. Se-ra is separated from her estrange husband who is a hedge fund manager and keep pushing to get pregnant. At the station, she is threatened by a much younger and vibrant newcomer who threatens her position. Five minutes before a live broadcast, a woman calls her for help as someone is breaking into her home and prepares to murder both her and her daughter. Thinking is a prank call since the woman calls her instead of the police, Sera ignores her pledge for help. However, Sera cannot hide her uneasy feelings and her mother tells her that it is her chance to become a real anchor, Sera heads to the caller's house and witnesses the bodies of the caller, Mi-so, and her daughter. From that day on, Sera begins to see the dead Mi-so repeatedly. At the scene of the incident, she encounters psychiatrist In-ho (Shin Ha-kyun), who was Mi-so's attending physician, and Sera's suspicions about him deepen.

As Se-ra digs deeper into the case, In-ho reveals that Mi-so actually killed herself and her daughter and there was actually no stalker came to kill them. Mi-so suffers from personality disorder and was actually his patient. Due to her fragile mental state from witnessing the death of Mi-so, Se-ra unable to do her job properly and is replaced by a much younger anchor. So-jeong comes at the new anchor and forces her to get Se-ra position back but when she refuses, she stabs her. It is then revealed that Se-ra herself also suffers from personality disorder to the stress her mother put her. When Se-ra learns that she was pregnant, her mother ordered her to abort her grandchildren so Se-ra can focus more on her career. Se-ra also learns that her own mother career went downhill in the past because she tried to kill Se-ra as she chose her career over being a mother. Se-ra screamed at her mother to get out of her life, causing her guilt-ridden mother to hang herself. Se-ra was stricken with guilt and caused her to develop a second personality of that of her mother. She was the one that stab her replacement.

Se-ra is eventually arrest but collapses from the stress, rendering her into months worth of coma. The movie ends with the doctor reveals that her baby is born and healthy.

## Cast

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* Chun Woo-hee as Jung Se-ra, the main anchor of a broadcasting station.[4]
* Shin Ha-kyun as Cho In-ho, a doctor and the spirit of a dead informant who leads Se-ra into greater chaos.[5]
* Lee Hye-young as Lee So-jeong, Se-ra's mother who is obsessed with her daughter's main news anchor position.
* Cha Rae-hyung as Min Ki-tae
* Park Ji-hyun as Seo Seung-ah[6]
* Nam Moon-cheol as head of the news agency
* Im Seong-jae as Detective Kim
* Kim Young-pil as Heo Ki-jeong
* Hae- Woon Hae as Reporter Han
* Jung Soon-won as PD Choi
* Park Se-hyun as Yoon Mi-so
* Seo Yi-soo as Yuna
* Kim Young-ah as Professor Han Young-ok
* Eun-sol as a female anchor[7]

## Production

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Casting was confirmed in September 2019 and filming began on November 9, 2019.[8]

## A box office

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Accumulated attendance of 164,911 and cumulative sales of KRW 1,613,962,610.[9]

## References

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1. ^ Kang Hyo-jin (December 31, 2020). '내년엔 꼭 보고 싶다'…기대작 쟁여놓은 2021 韓영화 라인업 ['I want to see you next year'... 2021 Korean movie lineup with high expectations]. Spotify News (in Korean). Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Naver.
2. ^ "KOFIC, KOBIS (Korean Box Office Information System) The Box office: Korean films of 2022". KOFIC. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
3. ^ Jo Ji-young (March 21, 2022). [공식] 천우희 주연 스릴러 '앵커', 4월 20일 개봉 확정 [[Official] Thriller 'Anchor' starring Chun Woo-hee to be released on April 20th] (in Korean). Sports Chosun. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Naver.
4. ^ Lee Da-won (August 26, 2019). [단독] 이혜영·천우희, '앵커'로 뭉친다 [[Exclusive] Lee Hye-young and Chun Woo-hee to unite as 'Anchor'] (in Korean). Retrieved March 21, 2022.
5. ^ Kim No-eul (September 23, 2019). 신하균 측 "영화 '앵커' 출연 확정"…이혜영·천우희 만난다(공식입장) [Shin Ha-kyun confirmed to appear in the movie 'Anchor'... Lee Hye-young and Chun Woo-hee meet (official position)]. MK Sports (in Korean). Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Naver.
6. ^ "[Cine Review] 'Anchor', a freshly creepy psychological pressure mystery thriller". Spotify News. Retrieved April 27, 2022 – via Naver.
7. ^ Lee Seung-rok (March 23, 2022). '아나운서 출신' 은솔, 영화 '앵커' 캐스팅 ['Announcer' Eunsol casts for movie 'Anchor'] (in Korean). MyDaily. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Naver.
8. ^ Kim Kyung-hee (November 12, 2019). '앵커' 천우희 X 신하균 X 이혜영 막강 캐스팅으로 뉴스룸의 서스펜스 펼친다!. MBC Entertainment (in Korean). Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Naver.
9. ^ "KOFIC 영화관 입장권 통합전산망(2)". www.kobis.or.kr. Retrieved May 20, 2024.

## External links

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* Anchor at IMDb
* Anchor at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
* Anchor at HanCinema