Really Surprised!

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This documentary will change how you view your life. This film tells the story of a humble, hardworking pastor living in South Korea. It is a documentary about how a fiercely tender man has made a remarkable, redemptive impact saving the lives of those Jesus called "the least of these" or unwanted babies. The Drop Box is truly a story about good new. It is a story about what the Gospel looks like in action. In Pastor Lee, we see a reflection of this. And in the broken and abandoned children that are saved and served, we see ourselves and in the process understand more fully our own redemption. A must-see documentary. You won't regret watching this.

The movie takes a very important issue and the director makes a Sundance Film Festival Movie Documentary.... it falls way short Limited show times mean jam packed theater goers crammed into tiny seats to view a foreign language documentary. 12.50 tickets for a movie you spend all your time reading what the people who are speaking .... you barley get to see what is being portrayed. Give me a translator or captioning but please not both Pastor Lee is doing wonderful work with the unwanted children but please this film team stinks. it looks more like a 60 Minutes piece than trying to bring awareness to the issue of women abandoning their children for cultural reasons.Why the exorbitant ticket price? does any of it go to Pastor Lee? this movie falls way short as a documentary or as a movie at all.... the issue of abandoning children is important but this didn't evoke an emotional response I thought it would....

I caught this the other day at AMC in Ontario Mills, I was interested because there was a girl in line buying pre-sale tickets and was surprised to see a full house when I walked in to see it.The film does a fantastic job bringing an important social issue to light, abandoned babies. They cover the social work done by a doctor in Korea, whose vocation was discovered when he himself had a disfigured child born. Rather than killing or abandoning the child which is what I probably would have done, he fostered it with love, and realized that it was his calling. Before I really didn't feel connected to mentally disabled or handicapped people, I always saw them at a sort of sub-human level due to their lack of intellect or offensive disfigurements. But after this journey it actually made me tear up a little bit during a few scenes, and made me very thankful that there are people and programs out there which support the forgotten. I grew up Catholic but have a non-practicing sort of believer for a while - this movie actually renewed my faith a little bit.That is until the interview at the end. I suspect they added it because without it the movie seemed like it was only around 1 hour or 1 hour 10 minutes long. It was very forced and ruined everything for me - it turned the movie into a commercial for their abandoned baby cause, repeatingly asking for donations, and the director sharing his Christian conversion story was disgusting because it was self righteous and sounded fake. What made me really hate it is that it was a terrible choice by the production team. They easily could have showed snippets of a one on one interview with the director throughout the movie, sharing his story from atheism to Christianity, without making it too denominational. I really got a "Born again Christian" fundamentalist vibe from the interview group, and as a gay person, I was really turned off. Even if they had to make the interview fake, it's a movie, so they can do whatever they want to make the message more powerful. Also since the movie obviously wanted a Christian message, they really could have led the story into an expose piece on abortion, since they got us all to care about these babies. If the direction team pulls the post interview or edits it feel free to IMDb message me I'll give it a 10 and change my review.I still liked the movie, if you want to improve your experience leave the theater when it says "THE END", don't watch the interview at the end.

A documentary isn't always about the "presentation" it's also about the story it tells. So you giving this movie a 1 star tells me you're just a hater. If you gave it a 5 I would of have taken your review in consideration, but seriously 1 star. I knew about this pastor for many years and he and his wife are truly amazing people. They save unwanted babies with a question, doesn't that deserve at least 3 stars just for the story. What is wrong with you? Wow. Someone's got no empathy. The reason no one in the audience clapped is because they were in awe. I'm sure the sighs were from yourself and your friends who critique simply things like camera angles and background music and not the story.