Anchor (film)

Anchor
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Hangul	앵커
RR	Aengkeo
MR	Aengk'ŏ

Directed by	Jung Ji-yeon
Screenplay by	Jung Ji-yeon
Starring	Chun Woo-hee Shin Ha-kyun Lee Hye-young
Production companies	Insight Film About Film
Distributed by	Ace Maker Movie Works^[1]
Release date	April 20, 2022 (2022-04-20)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$1.3 million^[2]

Jung Se-ra is a highly competitive and ambitious newsanchor who lives with her domineering mother So-jeong. So-jeong pressures Se-ra to be a successful news anchor much like herself in the past during her glory days in front of the camera at the cost of Se-ra mental health and her relationship with her husband. Se-ra is separated from her estrange husband who is a hedge fund manager and keep pushing to get pregnant. At the station, she is threatened by a much younger and vibrant newcomer who threatens her position. Five minutes before a live broadcast, a woman calls her for help as someone is breaking into her home and prepares to murder both her and her daughter. Thinking is a prank call since the woman calls her instead of the police, Sera ignores her pledge for help. However, Sera cannot hide her uneasy feelings and her mother tells her that it is her chance to become a real anchor, Sera heads to the caller's house and witnesses the bodies of the caller, Mi-so, and her daughter. From that day on, Sera begins to see the dead Mi-so repeatedly. At the scene of the incident, she encounters psychiatrist In-ho (Shin Ha-kyun), who was Mi-so's attending physician, and Sera's suspicions about him deepen.

As Se-ra digs deeper into the case, In-ho reveals that Mi-so actually killed herself and her daughter and there was actually no stalker came to kill them. Mi-so suffers from personality disorder and was actually his patient. Due to her fragile mental state from witnessing the death of Mi-so, Se-ra unable to do her job properly and is replaced by a much younger anchor. So-jeong comes at the new anchor and forces her to get Se-ra position back but when she refuses, she stabs her. It is then revealed that Se-ra herself also suffers from personality disorder to the stress her mother put her. When Se-ra learns that she was pregnant, her mother ordered her to abort her grandchildren so Se-ra can focus more on her career. Se-ra also learns that her own mother career went downhill in the past because she tried to kill Se-ra as she chose her career over being a mother. Se-ra screamed at her mother to get out of her life, causing her guilt-ridden mother to hang herself. Se-ra was stricken with guilt and caused her to develop a second personality of that of her mother. She was the one that stab her replacement.

Se-ra is eventually arrest but collapses from the stress, rendering her into months worth of coma. The movie ends with the doctor reveals that her baby is born and healthy.

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