Wonderful Nightmare


Wonderful Nightmare is a 2015 South Korean fantasy 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.
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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
  • Go On as Park Chan-jin
  • Hwang Suk-ha as Team leader Kim
  • Kim Do-yeon as Resident
  • Yang Do-yeon as Lawyer Park
  • Kim Byung-choon as Principal
  • Yeom Dong-heon as Head of the district
  • Kim Hye-na as Yeon-woo's mother
  • Choi Il-hwa as Chairman Park
  • Jung Ji-yoon as Pharmacist
  • Jung Yoo-suk as Public prosecutor Choi

Adaptations

A Taiwanese film adaptation titled Beautiful Accident was released in 2017, starring Gwei Lun-mei and Chen Kun.
In December 2023, it was announced that a Philippine film adaptation of the same title will be released in 2024, to be starred by Sarah Geronimo and Matteo Guidicelli.