''Bravo, My Life'' (), also known as ''Mommy, Dearest'', is a 2005 South Korean film directed by
Park Heung-sik about an adolescent boy who starts to come of age in the late 70s and early 80s, largely oblivious to the dramatic political events occurring around him. The film sold 406,526 tickets nationwide.
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Plot
''Bravo, My Life!'' opens in October 1979 with the news of president Park Chung Hee's assassination. But for 14-year-old Gwang-ho, it is more importantly his first day at junior high, where the kids are interested in football and brawling. Gwang-ho's mother, Mal-soon, whose husband is working in Saudi Arabia
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, devotes everything to her children. Despite a nagging illness, Mal-soon wears heavy make-up as she sells cosmetics door-to-door. Meanwhile, as his sexual awareness increases, Gwang-ho turns his attention and affection to their pretty neighbor Eun-sook, an assistant nurse who is the complete opposite of Gwang-ho's mother. One day, Gwang-ho receives a " good-luck letter." The letter states that unless he immediately writes and sends the same letter to someone else, he will be faced with bad luck. He starts sending it to people around him, but as those people start vanishing, Gwang-ho is racked with guilt, suspecting the letter of luck is the cause of their disappearance.
Cast
* Moon So-ri
Moon So-ri (; born July 2, 1974) is a South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her acclaimed leading roles in ''Oasis (2002 film), Oasis'' (2002), ''A Good Lawyer's Wife'' (2003), and ''When Life Gives You Tange ...
as Kim Mal-soon
* Lee Jae-eung as Gwang-ho
* Yoon Jin-seo
Yoon Jin-seo (; born August 5, 1983), birth name Yoon Soo-kyung, is a South Korean actress. She rose to prominence for her performance as Lee Soo-ah in the 2003 thriller film ''Oldboy (2003 film), Oldboy'' which earned her the Baeksang Arts Awa ...
as Eun-sook
* Kim Dong-young as Chul-ho
* Park Yoo-seon as Hye-sook
* Kim Bong-geun
* Lee Han-wi
* Kang Min-hwi as Jae-myung
* Park Myung-shin
* Jung Da-bin
* Lee Kan-hee as Sang-soo's mother
References
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2005 films
2000s Korean-language films
Films directed by Park Heung-sik (born 1965)
South Korean coming-of-age drama films
2000s coming-of-age drama films
2005 drama films
2000s South Korean films
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