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Wonderful Nightmare
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Wikipedia article
'Wonderful Nightmare' (; lit. 'Miss Wife') is a 2015 South Korean romantic comedy film starring Uhm Jung-hwa and Song Seung-heon.
The early Korean working title literally translates to 'Wonderful Nightmare' , which was retained for the international English title.
Plot
Yeon-woo is a successful lawyer who gets into an automobile accident leading her to fall into a coma. She wakes in heaven to find that her death was a clerical error and it was actually an old woman with the same name who was meant to die.
To hide the mistake, she is asked to live as another woman a housewife who was also killed by mistake for just one month. Married to a very ordinary civil servant named Sung-hwan with a difficult teenage daughter and a precocious six-year-old, Yeon-woo finds herself changing in unexpected ways as well as facing challenges she hasn't faced before.
Cast
*Uhm Jung-hwa as Lee Yeon-woo
*Song Seung-heon as Kim Sung-hwan
*Kim Sang-ho as Chief Lee
*Ra Mi-ran as Mi-sun
*Seo Shin-ae as Kim Ha-neul
*Lee Seung-ho as Kyeong-ho
*Jung Ji-hoon as Kim Ha-roo
*Lee Seung-ho as Choi Kyung-hoon
*Lee Jun-hyeok as Section chief Choi
*Kim Byung-chul as Jin-man
*Go Soo-hee as Head of women's society
*Kim Jae-man as Section chief Park
*Jo Duk-jae as Doo-man
*Hwang Geum-byul as Senior Jo
*Yoon Boo-jin as Hyun-seo's mother
*Lee Mi-yoon as Sung-soo's mother
*Park Yoo-mil as Min-ah's mother
*Lee Yong-nyeo as Kyung-rae
*Lee Woo-joo as Hyun-seo
*Yoon Joo as Ji-min
*Seol Ji-yoon as Ji-min's mother
*Kang Eun-ah as So-ra
*Bae Min-jung as Woman in formal dress
*Kim Young-moo as Kyung-hoon's lawyer
*Lee Jong-goo as Mr. Kim, the guard
*Heo Jung-eun as Chan-mi
*Lee Hye-rin as Ji-woo
*Kwon Soo-jung as young Yeon-woo
*Ahn So-yeon as student-age Yeon-woo
*Park Sang-hyuk as Yeon-woo's assistant
*Baek Chul-min as Park Chan-jin
*Hwang Suk-ha as Team leader Kim
*Yang Do-yeon as Lawyer Park
*Kim Byung-choon as Principal (cameo)
*Yeom Dong-heon as Head of the district (cameo)
*Kim Hye-na as Yeon-woo's mother (cameo)
*Choi Il-hwa as Chairman Park (cameo)
*Jung Ji-yoon as Pharmacist (cameo)
*Jung Yoo-suk as Public prosecutor Choi (cameo)
Remake
A Chinese remake was released in 2017, titled 'Beautiful Accident'. It was directed by Ho Wi Ding and stars Gwei Lun-mei and Chen Kun.
Awards and nominations
References
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