颓唐邋遢的哈伯(Chance A. Rearden 饰)曾经是某个名噪一时的儿童秀主持人,但他早已不复当年的辉煌,节目收视率持续走低,哈伯则自暴自弃,饮酒作乐,任意妄为,甚至搞砸节目的录制。最终,他失去了这份干了半辈子的工作。在此之后,他打电话找来自己的粉丝以及唯一好友——刚刚通过医生考试的青年德文(Wade F. Wilson 饰)。醉醺醺的哈伯声称要从事人偶生意,而且还送给德文一个大号的偶噶布噶(Ooga Booga)土著人偶。归家途中,德文意外遭遇一场抢劫案,谁知报警后却被带有种族偏见的警察当作劫犯射杀。 德文含冤而死,未曾料他的灵魂却附到那个可怕的偶噶布噶人偶身上……
A once promising baseball star is constantly hunted by two hitmen when a young boy asks him to sell his baseball jacket. A high school student acquires a sleep control device to help him with his exams, and ends up getting more acquainted with the seller in the process. A prison guard buys a guitar and plays one last song with a rock band after he finds out that his number has been called up… to be an executioner. An English tutor and amateur journalist investigating a murder case makes an offer to gain information on the involvement of … a once promising baseball star.
GOOD DEAL is a woven tapestry of the interconnected lives of people striving through the day-to-day of contemporary Korean society. Quite a spectrum of themes are covered: romance, crime, sports, famly, work, and even Russian literature! As each of its characters seek to make a “deal” with another person to help them stay ahead or even stay alive, they find their interactions much more involved and complex than they first thought. Written and directed by Cho Kyuong-ho, the film mixes wickedly dark humor and sincere sentimentality through its interwoven yet still seamlessly linear style of storytelling.
Yern, a bus driver, Lay, his cross-eyed best friend, and Peh, a crippled woman who sells fish at the local market are all sick of being poor. They feel the only way they will ever have a chance to be rich is to join the gang of Mafia godfather, Boss Tod. The threesome is assigned by Boss Tod to kidnap a millionaire's son. They fulfill the mission, but they accidentally bring back the wrong boy. The boy they've kidnapped is Sang-wu, the lonely son of mafia Boss Bo. Later, they end up taking care of Sang-wu because the boy is afraid of the violence in his family. Meanwhile, Boss Bo announces that brutal torture awaits the kidnappers who took his son. Yern, Peh and Lay must now struggling to survive.