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Liquor Store Dreams

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ136706583 ↗
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Liquor Store Dreams is a 2022 documentary film which explores the relationship between two Korean Americans and their immigrant parents who own liquor stores in Los Angeles while also examining the complex relationship between the immigrant store owners and the communities they run their businesses in.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liquor Store Dreams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.