Oldboy (2013) on Netflix
Joe Doucett wakes in a locked hotel room, held by captors he never sees who give no reason. Twenty years on, they free him with a phone and cash but no answers.
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Plot summary
In 1993, advertising executive Joe Doucett loses a major account and drinks until he passes out. He comes to inside a locked hotel room, held by captors he never sees, who leave him food, alcohol and toiletries and never explain why. Television news reports the rape and murder of Donna, his ex-wife, names him as the suspect, and says their baby daughter Mia has been adopted. Across twenty years Joe quits drinking, builds his strength and writes letters meant for Mia. Then he is drugged and wakes outdoors with a cell phone and thousands of dollars. He chases a woman with a yellow umbrella and runs into Marie Sebastian, a nurse who offers her help. At his friend Chucky's bar, a mocking call reaches him from a man calling himself the Stranger.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Oldboy (2013)
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- Spike Lee's original cut of Oldboy ran 140 minutes, but producers re-edited it down to 105 minutes, including trimming the film's one-shot hammer fight scene; unhappy with the result, Lee removed his usual "A Spike Lee Joint" credit and billed it as "A Spike Lee Film" instead.
- Christian Bale was reportedly in talks to play the antagonist, then the role was offered to Colin Firth, who passed on it; it was offered to Clive Owen next, before Sharlto Copley was officially cast as the villain Adrian Pryce in May 2012.
- In 2009, the publisher of the original Oldboy manga sued the Korean film's producers, alleging they had given the American remake rights to Steven Spielberg without the publisher's permission.
