Overview of My Little Bride
‘My Little Bride’ is a movie directed by Kim Ho-jun. It was released on 2 April 2004 and was a domestic hit. The movie is centred on a 15-year-old high school girl and her marriage life. Bo-eun and her close-acquainted childhood friend Sang-min are trapped in a marital relationship due to the promise made by their grandparents. The role of the high school bride is played by Moon Geun-young and the role of her student intern husband is played by Kim Rae-won.
Profile
- Name: My Little Bride
- Genre: Romance- Comedy, Drama
- Starring: Moon Geun-young, Kim Rae-won
- Directed by: Kim Ho-jun
- Written by: Yoo Soon-il
- Produced by: Choi Soon-shik
- Cinematography: Seo Jeong-min
- Release date: 2 April 2004
- Edited by: Park Soon-deok
- Distributed by: Korea Pictures
- Running time: 115 minutes
- Music by: Choi Soon-shik, Choi Man-shik
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Kore
Cast
- Kim Rae-won as Sang-min
- Moon Geun-young as Bo-eun
- Shin Se-kyung as Hye-won
- Song Ki-yoon as Bo-eun’s father
- Kim In-moon as Bo-eun’s grandfather
- Park Jin-woo as Lee Jung-woo
- Kim Bo-kyung as Ji-soo
- Kim Hye-ok as Sang-min’s mother
- Han Jin-hee as Sang-min’s father
- Sunwoo Eun-sook as Bo-eun’s mother
- Ryu Deok-hwan as Dong-goo
- Ahn Sun-young as Teacher Kim
- Yoon Chan as Yong-joo
- Kim Han as Young-chul
Synopsis
Two closely acquainted families are marrying off their children due to a promise made in the past. The bride, a high school student and the groom, a college goer start to live together in an apartment away from their parents. Since the bride, Bo-eun, has not completed her schooling, she keeps her marriage a secret from her fellow students.
The girl, who is still a teenager and has not gotten out of teenage fantasy, has a crush on her schoolmate named Jung-woo. She is too young to consider her annoying childhood friend, Sang-min, as her husband.
Soon after her wedding, Jung-woo, the heartthrob of the whole school, starts to show interest in her. Jung-woo announces their dating officially in front of the bullies who caught Bo-eun. Bo-eun’s best friend becomes upset by the news since she too has feelings for the boy.
Bo-eun does not care about informing Sang-min about her dates with Jung-woo. One day, to Bo-eun’s utter surprise, Sang-min joins her school as an art teacher intern. From the day of joining, a lady staff member named teacher Kim starts to hit on Sang-min.
On a random day, teacher Kim visits Sang-min’s house unexpectedly making Bo-eun escape from the house creating a funny scene. To cover up the scene, Sang-min says that she is his crazy little sister.
On Sang-min’s military service day, Bo-eun brings him food in her school uniform. She picks up an argument with the military men in senior positions when they command Sang-min to do push-ups during his lunchtime. After that incident, Sang-min starts to have romantic feelings for Bo-eun.
However, teacher Kim learns about Bo-eun’s and Sang-min’s marriage which provokes her. She assigns the duty of painting the school hall’s wall to Bo-eun. Watching Bo-eun suffer alone, her best friend, Hye-won, helps her paint the wall.
One evening, after painting the wall, they go to the restroom to clean up. In the restroom, they discuss about Sang-min. Their conversation is overheard by the bullies.
Bo-eun’s brother asks his friends to record a secret video of him talking to his crush. Unfortunately, Bo-eun is on a date with Jung-woo at the same place. The friends record the video of Bo-eun with Jung-woo. The video makes her ashamed in front of her family. However, Sang-min comforts her. Later, her mother and Hye-won convince her about the love that Sang-min has for her.
Hye-won tells her about the secret help that Sang-min and his friends gave to their painting. She runs to the school to check on the hall’s wall and finds the wall beautifully painted. She is touched by the portrait of a boy pushing a little girl on the swing, painted by Sang-min.
The next day at school, she apologises to Jung-woo and breaks up with him. She searches for Sang-min and finds him sitting in the crowd. The anchor invites him to the stage for a speech, and when he speaks, a student who is jealous of Bo-eun announces through the mic about their secret marriage. Sang-min reveals the news of their marriage in front of the whole school and requests the students to be kind to Bo-eun. Touched by his speech, Bo-eun accepts his love.
Theme
Child marriage is the fundamental theme in the movie. The theme of child marriage in the movie is portrayed in a way that does not hurt the feelings of the audience. The movie is a family entertainer with lots of funny scenes. The personal space of the bride is respected in the movie. The boy whom she married is a nice person and being known from childhood their life after marriage is not tough. They live like a brother and sister after their marriage.
The movie gives time to the teen bride to realise the love of her husband. Romance as a theme in this movie is so soothing. The elder partner is remarkably understanding, the age and infatuation of his little wife is the main concern of the hero. Furthermore, he plays the role of a big brother, a flirty friend, and a husband in Bo-eun’s life.
Awards
- 41st Grand Bell Awards 2004
Best New Actor – Kim Rae-won
Best New Actress – Moon Geun-young
Popularity Award – Moon Geun-young - 12th Chunsa Film Art Awards 2004
Best New Actress – Moon Geun-young - 25th Blue Dragon Film Awards 2004
Popular Star Award – Moon Geun-young
Interesting Facts about My Little Bride
- ‘My Little Bride’ is remade from the 2002 film ‘My Wife is 18’.
- ‘My Little Bride’ made its release in the Philippines on 23 November 2005.
- In Korea ‘My Little Bride’ was a great hit selling 3,149,500 tickets and was ranked as the second most popular domestic movie.
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