BLUE BAYOU - Official Trailer - Only in Theaters September 17 Written by Justin Chon

BLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon

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Monte Haines Deportation Story

Monte Haines Deportation Story

Want to know the true-life stories of deported adoptees from Seoul, South Korea? If you watched Justin Chon’s film titled Blue Bayou, you should know the background history of not only deported adoptees, like Adam Crapser and Monte Haines but the typical childhood narratives of adoptees like them. his collection, compiled by Korean adoptees, serves as a tribute to transracially adopted people sent all over the world. It has been hailed to be the first book to give Korean adoptees the opportunity to speak freely since the pioneering of intercountry adoption after the Korean War. If you were adopted, you are not alone. These stories validate the experiences of all those who have been ridiculed or outright abused but have found the will to survive, thrive, and share their tale. Adopted people all over the world are reclaiming the right to truth and access to birth documents.  Read The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now.

An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and step-dad to their beloved daughter Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

 

Monte Haines Deportation Story

Monte Haines Deportation Story

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