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If whispered monologues were currency, Buddy's Mom would settle the national debt.
“This tomato has seen things.”
— THE DEVIL TOMATO
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2015 · Drama / Romance
Buddy's Mom
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother.
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RELEASE DATE
2015
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GENRE
Drama / Romance
PLOT SUMMARY
20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother.
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@POPCORN_CRITIC2025-12-02 06:00 UTC
If Buddy's Mom was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.
@CREDITS_FLEE2025-12-01 11:00 UTC
Buddy's Mom has the emotional range of a fridge magnet.
@RATIO_RAT2025-12-15 20:00 UTC
The chemistry in Buddy's Mom is so flat it would fail a high-school lab report.
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r/TrueFilm · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 1.1k points
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Buddy's Mom?
Everyone praising the Buddy's Mom performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/flicks · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 4.4k points
The cinematography in Buddy's Mom is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Look, I wanted to love Buddy's Mom. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/flicks · u/ExpositionDump🔥 0.8k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Buddy's Mom actually is?
Just got out of Buddy's Mom and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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r/movies · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 0.4k points
Hot Take: Buddy's Mom's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Director clearly thought Buddy's Mom was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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