Starring: Yeom Jeong-A, Lee Se-Young, Lee Ji-Hun
Director: Jang Gyu-Seong
Studio: CJ Entertainment
Rating: 15+
Genre: Comedy
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About This DVD
A fight for love always sounds romantic, but what if the battle field is an
elementary school and the two rivals in love are a female teacher and her
12-year-old student trying to win the heart of a good-looking teacher? A new
local comedy successfully takes the funny factors from this exact situation and
develops it as bitter sweet.
"Lovely Rivals," directed by Jang Kyu-sung, seems like a sequel for the
director's previous comedy "Teacher Mr. Kim," since it is also set in a primary
school and is about a teacher who doesn't have any affection towards his
students but later finds the true meaning of teaching.
However, "Lovely Rivals" presents more uncontrived humor over the natural
development of its story, delivered by main actress Yeom Jeong-a from "Pomchoe-ui
Chaegusong (The Big Swindle)'' and "Changhwa, Hongryon (A Tale of Two
Sisters),'' and Lee Se-young from "Ahopsal Insaeng (When I Turned Nine)."
Completely different from her roles of a femme fatale in her previous films,
Yeom's comic acting to play a sassy and quirky single lady in her 30s in the
movie is good enough to bring audiences to laughter, which is blended with Lee's
cute yet cynical image.
The film revolves around Yoe Mi-ok (Yeom), a teacher who is thinking only of
escaping from the school and moving to the city without taking proper care of
her students. Her easy going life in school is challenged when she falls in love
at first sight with a handsome and gentle male teacher, played by Lee Ji-hoon,
but one of her students Ko Mi-nam (Lee), who is a little more mature than her
classmates, becomes the teacher's worst hindrance to obtaining her love.
As the story evolves, jealousy and psychological warfare between them create
witty and funny scenes. While presenting the main character's enmity, the movie
also introduces current problems in schools such as young teachers' losing
passion for their students and yearning only for a job in the big cities.
Since their mutual understanding leads Yoe to find the value of her job, some
might say the movie is predictably a bit sentimental at the end, but it
successfully delivers humor which can be genuinely heartfelt and differentiated
from toilet humor mixed with meaningless violence, which is so often seen in
recent local movies.
Audio Format: | DD 5.1 Surround |
Video Format: | Widescreen 2.35:1 (Anamorphic) |
Languages: | Korean |
Subtitles: | English, Korean |
Country Made: | Korea |
Region Code: | 3 |
Year Made: | 2004 |
Running Time: | 114 |
Special Features: | DISC 1: - Teaser - Trailer - TV spot - Commentary by Director and Casts DISC 2: - Making of Film - Deleted Scenes - CG - Premiere Scenes (3) - Poster Shooting Scenes - Storyboard - Photo Gallery |
Availability: | Usually ships in 5-10 days |
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