Boomerang Family

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Boomerang Family
Boomerang Family poster.jpg
Directed by Song Hae-sung
Produced by Na Gyeong-chan
Kim Dong-hyun
Screenplay by Kim Hae-gon
Kim Jae-hwan
Song Hae-sung
Based on Aging Family
by CHEON Myeong-kwan
Starring Park Hae-il
Yoon Je-moon
Gong Hyo-jin
Youn Yuh-jung
Jin Ji-hee
Music by Lee Jae-jin
Cinematography Hong Kyung-pyo
Edited by Park Gok-ji
Production
company
Invent Stone Corp.
Distributed by CJ Entertainment
Release dates
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  • May 9, 2013 (2013-05-09)
Running time
112 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean
Box office US$7,102,103[1]

Boomerang Family (Hangul고령화 가족; RRGoryeonghwa Gajok; lit. "Aging Family") is a 2013 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Song Hae-sung,[2] and starring Park Hae-il, Yoon Je-moon, Gong Hyo-jin, Youn Yuh-jung, and Jin Ji-hee.[3][4] Based on the 2010 novel Aging Family by Cheon Myeong-kwan,[5] the film is about three misfit siblings with a mean average age of 39, who all decide to move back in with their mother.[6][7]

Plot

Film director In-mo (Park Hae-il) is a 40-year-old movie director who's been jobless for the past decade after his debut film was a commercial and artistic flop. Mired in poverty and depressed at his wife's affair, he decides to hang himself. But a well-timed call from his mother (Youn Yuh-jung) inviting him to dinner results in a change of plans. Instead of killing himself, he decides to move in to his mother's home, where his older brother Han-mo (Yoon Je-moon) also lives. A 44-year-old unemployed ex-gangster with five criminal convictions, Han-mo is not particularly pleased at this development. But more trouble lies ahead: younger sister Mi-yeon (Gong Hyo-jin) arrives with her bratty, rebellious 15-year-old daughter Min-kyung (Jin Ji-hee). 35-year-old Mi-yeon announces that she is leaving her second husband, and that she needs to stay with them for the immediate future. In this way, fate has reunited this dysfunctional and rather quirky family, with their petty conflicts, sibling rivalries and largely unexpressed affection, as they struggle with the challenges of middle age.[7][8][9][10]

Cast

  • Park Hae-il as Oh In-mo
  • Yoon Je-moon as Oh Han-mo
  • Gong Hyo-jin as Oh Mi-yeon[11]
  • Youn Yuh-jung as Mom
  • Jin Ji-hee as Shin Min-kyung, Mi-yeon's daughter
  • Ye Ji-won as Han Soo-ja, hairdresser
  • Kim Young-jae as Jung Geun-bae, Mi-yeon's boyfriend
  • Yoo Seung-mok as drug peddler
  • Park Young-seo as Ki-soo, Han-mo's thief friend
  • Lee Young-jin as Seo Mi-ok, In-mo's wife
  • Jung Young-gi as Jang, Mi-yeon's husband
  • Kim Hae-gon as Kim, porno producer
  • Kim Dae-jin as Choi
  • Yoo Yeon-mi as Min-kyung's school friend
  • Han Sung-yong as restaurant customer
  • Oh Min-ae as landlady
  • Woo Hye-jin as Mi-yeon's wedding friend
  • Hwang Byung-gook as wedding photographer
  • Park Geun-hyung as Mr. Gu, Mom's male friend
  • Kim Ji-young as Sang-geun's woman
  • Yang Hee-kyung as Jung-hyun's woman
  • Kim Kyung-ae as Jung-bok's woman

Awards and nominations

2013 50th Grand Bell Awards

References

  1. "Aging Family". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
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