Bronze Medalist
MovieTitle | 킹콩을 들다 |
User score | 7.6 |
Release date | Jul 1, 2009 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Park Gun-yong |
Production country | South Korea |
Production companies | Next Entertainment World, Michigan Venture Capital, Mirovision, RG Enterworks, CL Entertainment, CJ Entertainment |
Run time | 120 min. |
Lee Ji-Bong is a former Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unable to find another vocation, he becomes destitute. Down and out, he ends up working at a shady nightclub passing out flyers until he is visited by his former coach who insists he begin a career as a coach at a high school. There, he forms a weight-lifting team comprised of a rag-tag group of outcasts.