Miss Granny

 

Miss Granny  is a 2014 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. Na Moon-hee stars as a woman in her 70s who magically finds herself in the body of her 20-year-old self (Shim Eun-kyung) after having her picture taken at a mysterious photo studio. After opening in theaters on January 22, 2014, it became a huge box office hit, with 8.65 million tickets sold.

 

Plot

Oh Mal-soon, a 74-year-old widow, lives with her son and his family. Foul-mouthed, stubborn, controlling and shameless, she has a difficult relationship with her depressed daughter-in-law Ae-ja, but is very proud of her son Hyun-chul, who became a university professor of gerontology, and whom she raised by herself against all odds. One day, Ae-ja gets hospitalized after suddenly collapsing. Her doctors strongly advise her to live apart from Mal-soon. On the day she is told by her son that she is being sent to a nursing home, the dismayed Mal-soon wanders the streets and comes across a mysterious photo studio that claims it captures the moments of one's youth. She takes what she believes will be her last self-portrait for her not-so-far-off funeral, but when she comes out of the studio, Mal-soon is dumbfounded by her own reflection in the mirror: she's now a fresh, young 20-year-old woman.

At first not knowing what to do, she hides from her family and soon ends up lodging with her fellow café shop worker who used to be a servant of her family. With no one recognizing her, Mal-soon decides to make the most out of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. She renames herself Oh Doo-ri after her all-time favorite actress Audrey Hepburn, gets a haircut similar to Hepburn's in Roman Holiday, and takes advantage of her youth. As the "suspicious girl" of the Korean title, all anyone sees is that Doo-ri speaks with a regional accent and walks like an old lady, and that she acts very strangely and motherly for her age. After wowing a group of pensioners with a stirring karaoke tune one day, she attracts the notice of her unknowing grandson Ji-ha, a 4th year in university, and Han Seung-woo, a TV music producer. Ji-ha invites her to join his heavy metal band, and after she convinces them to switch to more audience-pleasing melodies.

She gets caught romantically between two men: Mr. Park, her now ex-café worker friend who had always secretly loved Mal-soon, and Seung-woo, who's doing his best to track her down again.^[9][10][11] Mr. Park's daughter forces her out as she thinks Doo-ri is scheming after his money and she takes refuge in Mr. Han's apartment.

Meanwhile, the band becomes successful with her as vocalist and Seung-woo decides to take them under his wing. Doo-ri is thrilled to be pursuing a career in music ― something she had to give up when she was young. They are booked for an extravaganza at the studio and Ji-ha is late due to a traffic jam. He decides to leave the taxi and bike but is hit by a lorry on the way there. He is in a critical condition at the hospital but Doo-ri decides to go on stage so as to tell him that his song was a success afterwards. As she arrives at the hospital it is found that only she has the correct blood type for a transfusion. She does the transfusion knowing that it would return her back to her aged condition.

Ji-ha's band takes off with the sister as the lead singer and Doo-ri as a fan. Mr. Park finds the same photo studio and becomes young. He picks her up at a bus stop and rides off bickering good naturedly as they always do.

 

Cast

·         Shim Eun-kyung as Oh Doo-ri

·         Na Moon-hee as Oh Mal-soon

·         Park In-hwan as Mr. Park

·         Sung Dong-il as Ban Hyun-chul

·         Lee Jin-wook as Han Seung-woo

·         Hwang Jung-min as Ae-ja

·         Kim Seul-gi as Ban Ha-na

·         Jinyoung as Ban Ji-ha

·         Kim Hyun-sook as Park Na-young

·         Ha Yeon-joo as Soo-yeon

·         Park Hye-jin as Ok-ja

·         Jung In-gi as Hyun-chul's doctor friend

·         Hong Seok-yeon as chemist

·         Lee Jang-yu as shoe stall owner

·         Park Hyung-woo as bassist of Ji-ha's band

·         Lee Sang-eon as drummer of Ji-ha's band

·         Park Seung-tae as Oh Bok

·         Han Ji-eun as Seo Mi-ae

·         Hwang Young-hee as Chinese restaurant owner

·         Kim Seon-ha as princess in TV drama

·         Kim Dong-hee as Dragon

·         Kim Dong-seok as music show MC

·         Pyo Ye-jin as music show MC

·         Kim Soo-hyun as young Mr. Park (cameo)

·         Hwang Seung-eon as female college student applying make-up (cameo)

·         Jang Gwang as photographer (cameo)

·         Choi Hwa-jung as radio DJ (cameo)

·         Yoo Se-yoon as legendary band vocalist (cameo)