Oldboy

Downtown. Rain. A dropped hammer. Joe Doucett, wrecked, adrift in a booze haze, yanked from his life, locked away. Two decades vanish. One moment he's drowning in vice; the next, he's dumped back into daylight with a single clue. Lee's remake hits harder than most.

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Spike Lee directed Oldboy in 2013. See Spike Lee's full filmography, where to start with Spike Lee, or where to go after you've seen everything by Spike Lee.

Oldboy was released in 2013 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 104 minutes.