''Wonderful Nightmare'' (; lit. ''Miss Wife'') is a 2015 South Korean

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film starring

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and

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. The early Korean

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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

as Lee Yeon-woo *

as Kim Sung-hwan * Kim Sang-ho as Chief Lee *

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as Mi-sun *

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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 *

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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 *

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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

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(cameo) *Kim Hye-na as Yeon-woo's mother (cameo) *

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as Chairman Park (cameo) *

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as Pharmacist (cameo) *Jung Yoo-suk as Public prosecutor Choi (cameo)

Remake

A Chinese

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was released in 2017, titled '' Beautiful Accident''. It was directed by Ho Wi Ding and stars

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and

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Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * *{{hancinema film, Wonderful_Nightmare, Wonderful Nightmare 2015 romantic comedy films 2010s fantasy comedy films South Korean romantic comedy films South Korean fantasy comedy films South Korean films remade in other languages 2010s South Korean films 2010s Korean-language films