Bestseller

Good, but could have been much better.
Be-seu-teu-sel-leo (Bestseller) (Jeong-ho Lee, 2010)

You've heard this story before: a bestselling author--and we're not talking some midlist honey-of-the-month here, but a real force of nature, an Oprah-book-club-standard billion-seller--is accused of plagiarism in her most recent novel. She strenuously denies the charges, but once you're tarred with that brush, etc. She loses everything--her marriage, her professorship, the works. She has nothing to tie her to her swanky cosmopolitan lifestyle anymore, so she packs up her young daughter and heads for a small town on the coast where she might be able to pick up the pieces of her life, feel normal, maybe even write again.

That's where we are when Bestseller begins. The author in question is Hee-soo Baek (Princess Aurora's Jeong-hwa Eom), and unfortunately, her plans start having monkeywrenches thrown into them from the outset; for one thing, rather than finding a town where she can blend into the background, when...

Good Crime Drama
Bestseller is a movie about a disgraced writer who moves to a small town to try and redeem herself. Along with her young daughter she moves into a creepy villa that is said to be haunted. After Hee-Soo moves into the villa she suddenly becomes inspired to write a crime drama about the murder and disappearance of a young woman. This book is soon found to be plagiarized as well and Hee-Soo loses all credibility. However after some research she starts to suspect that the basis of her book was not just a story, but of a real murder. Bestseller reminded me very much of Stir Of Echoes as Hee-Soo doggedly searches for the truth behind the story. Is it just a story? Or is Hee-Soo really telling the truth. The plot twists and turns as Hee-Soo delves deeper and deeper into the past.

With plenty of twists, good actors, and a solid plot Bestseller is an entertaining crime drama. Fans of this genre should definitely check it out.



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