Miracle in Cell No. 7

Miracle in Cell No.Hangul7 RR7beonbangui Seonmul lit. A Gift from Roomis a 2013 South Korean film starring Ryu Seungryong, Kal Sowon and Park Shinhye. The film is a heartwarming comedy and family melodrama about a mentally challenged man wrongfully imprisoned for murder who builds friendships with the hardened criminals in his cell, and they help him see his daughter again by breaking her in.

Lee Yonggo is a mentally impaired father with the intellect of a sixyearold, who lives in a rundown house along with his daughter of the same age, Yesung. One day, he gets into a physical altercation with the police commissioner, who has just purchased the last Sailor Moon backpack for his daughter, a gift Yonggo was saving up to buy for Yesung. Soon after, the police commissioners daughter dies in a freak accident, in which she slips on ice and suffers a fatal blow to the back of her head while she is taking Yonggo to another store that sells the same backpack. When he tries to resuscitate her, a woman witnesses him and mistakes him to be molesting her. Yonggo is falsely accused of the abduction, murder, and rape of a minor. The police quickly took advantage of his disability and forced him to admit committing the crimes while ignoring exonerating evidence. Yonggo, who is sentenced to death, is imprisoned and assigned to Cell No. 7, the harshest cell in a maximum security prison.At first, the other men in the cell, led by gang leader So Yangho, do not take kindly to Yonggo after reading in his file that he murdered and molested a child, but when Yonggo saves Yangho from being fatally stabbed by a rival gang leader, Yangho repays the favor by smuggling Yesung into Cell No. 7. Over time, they come to believe in his innocence, and make it their goal to help reverse the verdict at Yonggos retrial . ........

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