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Best Friend
“During the day friendly neighbour. At night suspicious wiretapping team. Enemy? or Friend?”
75%
Movie
2h 4m
AI Analysis
Best Friend (2020) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Best Friend (2020) — a movie tagged as Drama and Comedy with funny and nostalgic moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: A leader of the opposition party in 1980s South Korea struggles to outwit the government who, unbeknownst to him, has placed a surveillance team in the house next door. Based on the life of Kim Dae-jung, the 8th President of South Korea. Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~124 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Best Friend 75% (19 votes) — strong audience scores for this movie.
AI verdict
Best Friend is a film worth prioritising when you want something with strong audience scores — our AI analysis flags it as a strong match for its genre and tone profile.
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TMDb audience score
75%
from 19 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
A leader of the opposition party in 1980s South Korea struggles to outwit the government who, unbeknownst to him, has placed a surveillance team in the house next door. Based on the life of Kim Dae-jung, the 8th President of South Korea.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 2020-11-25
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- TMDB rating
- 7.5
- TMDB ID
- 636282
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Is there an official trailer for Best Friend?
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What is Best Friend about?
A leader of the opposition party in 1980s South Korea struggles to outwit the government who, unbeknownst to him, has placed a surveillance team in the house next door. Based on the life of Kim Dae... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for Best Friend?
Yes. WatchMind publishes an AI analysis on this page — tone, pacing, audience fit, and community scores from TMDb metadata and recommendation models (not a chatbot). Scroll to the AI Analysis section or read the meta description summary.
How long is the movie Best Friend?
The official runtime for Best Friend is approximately 124 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
Cast
Jung Woo
Dae-kwon
Oh Dal-su
Eui-sik
Kim Hie-won
Department Head Kim
Kim Byong-chul
Dong-sik
Lee Yu-bi
Eun-jin
Cho Hyun-chul
Yeong-cheol
Kim Sun-kyung
Yeong-ja
Yeom Hye-ran
Woman from Yeosu
Ji Seung-hyun
Dong-hyeok
Jung Hyeon-jun
Ye-joon
Jung Hee-tae
Assistant Han
Kim Ki-cheon
Police Executive
Kim Se-dong
Kim Se-dong
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Han Seung-ju
Min-sung
Park Cheol-min
Min No-guk
Shim Yi Young
Ji-young
Yoo Jeong-ho
Lawmaker Yang
Hwang Byeong-gug
Director of the Press
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