Best Social Commentary Movies & TV Shows

Parasite

9 / 10

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Run time: 133m Tagline: Act like you own the place. Release: 2019-05-30

Stars: Cho Yeo-jeong Choi Woo-shik Jang Hye-jin Jung Hyeon-jun Jung Zi-so Lee Jung-eun Lee Sun-kyun Park Myung-hoon Park So-dam Song Kang-ho

God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, he's ill; Louis leaves but asvdisease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Louis. Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Pitt and Cohn are closeted: Pitt, out of shame and religious turmoil; Cohn, to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death.

Stars: Al Pacino Ben Shenkman Jeffrey Wright Justin Kirk Mary-Louise Parker Meryl Streep Patrick Wilson