Where to Watch Parasite (2019) in the US

What it's about

The Kims - mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung - are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell of poverty. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. Despite not having that university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye, who Min plans to date once he returns to Seoul and she herself is in university. The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. While Mr. and Mrs. Park are all about status, Mrs. Park has a flighty, simpleminded mentality and temperament, which Min tells Ki-woo to feel comfortable in lying to her about his education to get the job. In getting the job, Ki-woo further learns that Mrs. Park is looking for an art therapist for the Parks' adolescent son, Da-song, Ki-woo quickly recommending his professional art therapist friend "Jessica", really Ki-jung who he knows can pull off the scam in being the easiest liar of the four Kims. In Ki-woo also falling for Da-hye, he begins to envision himself in that house, and thus the Kims as a collective start a plan for all the Kims, like Ki-jung using assumed names, to replace existing servants in the Parks' employ in orchestrating reasons for them to be fired. The most difficult to get rid of may be Moon-gwang, the Parks' housekeeper who literally came with the house - she Namgoong's housekeeper when he lived there - and thus knows all the little nooks and crannies of it better than the Parks themselves. The question then becomes how far the Kims can take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks.

Cast and crew

Director

Bong Joon Ho

Writer

Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won

Starring

Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong

Details

Release date

Nov 8, 2019

Language

Korean, English

Country

South Korea

Box office

$53,847,897

Awards

Won 4 Oscars. 309 wins & 261 nominations total

Where to Watch Parasite (2019) in the US — common questions

Where to watch Parasite in the United States?

Parasite is available with a subscription, free with a participating library card, or to rent in the United States. Watch the movie with a subscription on fuboTV (HD) and Paramount+ (4K). Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Kanopy (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store, Fandango at Home, FlixFling (HD), and Prime Video.

Can I stream Parasite or do I have to rent it in the United States?

Watch the movie with a subscription on fuboTV (HD) and Paramount+ (4K). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store, Fandango at Home, FlixFling (HD), and Prime Video.

Can I watch Parasite for free in the United States?

Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Kanopy (HD).