IMDb plot summary: A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, and Mayu Matsuoka.
This movie reminds me a bit of The Florida Project, in that it's a movie about poverty that focuses heavily on complex relationships between family members -- or, in this case, chosen family members. The young girl in both movies is also probably the most compelling character. Shoplifters also has an equally uneasy ending, one that makes me yearn for another five minutes, something to give me resolution, but that's not what this movie is about. It's such a lonely film, but so well done.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Shoplifters > Natural Born Killer
Shoplifters > Evil Dead II
Shoplifters < Boyhood
Shoplifters > The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Shoplifters < Caddyshack
Shoplifters < Bride of Frankenstein
Shoplifters < Ninotchka
Shoplifters < Six Degrees of Separation
Shoplifters < The Land Before Time
Shoplifters < Beetlejuice
Shoplifters < Grave of the Fireflies
Shoplifters < What We Do in the Shadows
Final spot: #547 out of 2919.
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