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Spa Night is a 2016 American drama film directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Joe Seo.[1] It was shown in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.[2] At Sundance, Joe Seo won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance.[3]

Spa Night
Film poster
Directed by	Andrew Ahn
Written by	Andrew Ahn
Starring	Joe Seo
Release date	January 24, 2016 (2016-01-24) (Sundance)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Korean

Plot

David, an 18-year-old living in Koreatown, Los Angeles becomes an employee at a spa to help his financially struggling parents. He soon discovers illicit gay sex between the customers, which forces him to consider his own sexuality.

While this has been described as a coming out story, the focus is on the internal world of David, and his deep struggles and uncertainty, as a teenager, about how to be a good son but how to also be himself in what is a conservative family and rigid community.

Cast

• Joe Seo as David
• Haerry Kim as Soyoung
• Youn Ho Cho as Jin
• Tae Song as Eddie
• Ho Young Chung as Spa Manager
• Linda Han as Mrs. Baek
• Eric Jeong as Peter
• Yong Kim as Academy Director

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 96%, based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 6.80/10.[4] On Metacritic the film has a score of 76 out of 100 score, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5]

References

External links

• Spa Night at IMDb
• Spa Night at Rotten Tomatoes
• Spa Night at Metacritic

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