Overview
An investigative journalist uncovers dark secrets hidden within a care home, risking everything for the truth.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- harrowing
- oppressive
- intimate
- serious film night
- social issue cinema discussion
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as a powerful and harrowing social drama driven by Jennifer Yu’s investigative performance and its exposure of institutional abuse.
What sets it apart
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Kay infiltrates the Rainbow Bridge Care Home and documents neglect, violence, and corruption affecting elderly residents.
The facility’s abuse is linked not only to individual staff behavior but also to understaffing, weak oversight, and institutional corruption.
Investigative journalist Ling Hiu Kay poses as a patient’s granddaughter to enter and observe the care home.
The dilapidated care-home setting and direct observation of neglect support an austere social-realist presentation.
Films like In Broad Daylight, and why
Spotlight
shared investigative drama, institutional corruption, and harrowing social realism
The Whistleblower
shared journalism-centered uncovering of abuse and oppressive institutional systems
I, Daniel Blake
shared bleak social realism, vulnerable people, and exposure of systemic neglect
Movie Details
- Director
- Lawrence Kan
- Release Date
- 2023-11-02
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 (37)
Cast
- Jennifer Yu
- David Chiang Da-Wei
- Woo Fung
- Bowie Lam Bo-Yee
- Mimi Kung Chi-Yan
- Leung Chung-Hang
- Peter Chan Charm-Man
- Hui Yuet-Sheung
- Rachel Leung
- Henick Chou
Common questions
- What is In Broad Daylight about?
- An undercover journalist enters a decrepit Hong Kong care home and confronts a system that disguises cruelty as routine discipline.
- What is In Broad Daylight like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of In Broad Daylight as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is In Broad Daylight violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in In Broad Daylight as moderate.
- What did critics think of In Broad Daylight?
- Critics broadly regard the film as a powerful and harrowing social drama driven by Jennifer Yu’s investigative performance and its exposure of institutional abuse.
- Which films are like In Broad Daylight?
- Films with a similar feel include Spotlight, The Whistleblower, and I, Daniel Blake.
- How long is In Broad Daylight?
- In Broad Daylight runs 106 minutes.
