With the help of a former childhood friend (Jason Sudeikis) and a couple of townies (Tim Blake Nelson, Austin Stowell), she works to investigate the phenomenon, specifically by watching live feeds of the Asian city while carefully moving around the park.
Whenever she goes to the local playground at 8:05am, the creature appears and mimics her exact movements, resulting in serious destruction.
In the movie, Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, an out of work functional drunk who moves back to her hometown after being dumped by her boyfriend (Dan Stevens).
As she tries to get accustomed to life back in her parents’ old house and in the neighborhood, the world is rocked with the news that a giant monster has appeared in Seoul, South Korea — and while this is weird all by itself, what makes it far more complicated is that the beast is an extension of Gloria.