Boomerang Family (Korean: 고령화 가족; RR: Goryeonghwa gajok; lit. 'Aging Family') is a 2013 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Song Hae-sung, and starring Park Hae-il, Yoon Je-moon, Gong Hyo-jin, Youn Yuh-jung, and Jin Ji-hee. Based on the 2010 novel Aging Family by Cheon Myeong-kwan, the film is about three misfit siblings in their thirties and forties who all decide to move back in with their mother.
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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 into 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. Thus the dysfunctional family is reunited, revealing petty conflicts, sibling rivalries and largely unexpressed affection, as they struggle with the challenges of middle age.
Cast
Park Hae-il as Oh In-mo
Yoon Je-moon as Oh Han-mo
Gong Hyo-jin as Oh Mi-yeon
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
Nomination - Best Director - Song Hae-sung
Nomination - Best Actress - Youn Yuh-jung
Nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Jin Ji-hee