Saving My Hubby (2002)

5.8/10 91 min Comedy Drama

Overview

Geum-soon, once a top-ranked volleyball player, is now a common housewife with a six-month old daughter and a clumsy husband. On the first day her husband goes to work, she spends the day taking care of her little daughter who never stops crying. While Gum-soon is busy cleaning her house upon hearing her parents-in-law are coming on the next day, she gets a phone call from a club that they've arrested her husband for an unpaid bill. Amidst the merciless threatening of the gang in the club, Geum-soon rushes out into the night streets, still carrying her baby on her back. It's past midnight with less than three hours to go before her in-laws arrive. In the seediest part of Seoul, Geum-soon's husband is practically being held for ransom for the alcohol he didn't drink, Geum-soon has no clue where the bar is, two rival gangs are chasing after her, the pot is boiling at home, and her daughter is wailing while Geum-soon is leaping over trash cans in a dark alley.

Cast

Bae Doona

Jung Geum-soon

Kim Tae-woo

Han Ju-tae

Joo Hyun

Baeksa

Goh Doo-shim

Geum-soon's mother

Han Ji-hye

Convenience store clerk

Na Moon-hee

Ki Joo-bong

Han Ju-tae's father (uncredited)

Yoon Yeong-geol

Sun Dong-hyuk

Jang Yong

Geum-soon's father

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