The Quiet Family

1998

1h 39m

Comedy

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80%

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5 Reviews

72%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

Mrs. Kang (Na Moon-hee) her husband, Tae-gu (Park In-hwan), and their three adolescent children decide to escape the hustle and bustle of Seoul, South Korea, and open up their own lodge in the countryside. Their plans for peace and quiet, however, quickly go awry as their first guest commits suicide. Worried about the bad publicity the death might bring, they bury the body and pretend nothing happened. But, oddly, each successive guest commits suicide, and the Kangs continue to hide the corpses.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

HanCinema

Α film almost nonsensical as it unfolds like a collage of episodes rather than a solid story. However, these episodes are quite entertaining as they combine minor violence with black humor, based on the family's mischievous but naive characters

Jan 6, 2019

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Film Threat

Rated: 3.5/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

Kim Jee-woon’s Hitchcockian farce puts the dead in deadpan, showing a family and a country hilariously haunted by their own secrecy

Jul 22, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 21, 2005

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Film Threat

Rated: 3.5/5

Dec 8, 2002

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freeson w

A black comedy Korean film about a family that owns a mountain lodge where their guests keep dying. When the first guest commits suicide, the story tumbles into a chain of events of guest after guest, dying one after another, with the family having to bury the bodies and hide the evidence. It's a fun film and I really enjoyed that parts with the hitman/cop mix-up. The humor is quite dark and absurd, but was very funny.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

A dark farce about how choosing to tell one lie can quickly lead to more and more consequences. Hitchcockian in its situational setups by withholding information that the viewer knows from the film's characters, this film consistently gives viewers satisfying payoffs to both situational humor and suspenseful situations. A great ensemble cast lends itself to character types that play off each other well (the stern father, the goofy, childlike uncle, the idiot older brother, the innocent younger sisters) by testing each others' values and limits. Adept camerawork and lens movement make the inn feel like a director's dollhouse. Genuinely funny and dark enough to toe the line between charming and horrifying.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Audience Member

Very dark and very funny. Where a normal person would go, "Oh dear, a dead body. I should notify the authorities..." The quiet family is more like, "Go get a shovel..." Good performances as the actors portray a family trying to run a little mountain inn as the body count rises...

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

Charming little black comedy from Korea

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Audience Member

one of the best comic horror. if you liked Death becomes her, you'll love this movie too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

This was hysterical! I thought it would be more scary with funny undertones but it turned out to be the opposite. Definitely recommend this one.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Kim Ji-eon

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Song Kang-ho

Yeong-min Kang

Park In-hwan

Tae-gu Kang

Na Moon-hee

Mrs. Kang

Choi Min-sik

Chang-ku Kang

Lee Yeonseong

Mi-su Kang

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Synopsis

Mrs. Kang (Na Moon-hee) her husband, Tae-gu (Park In-hwan), and their three adolescent children decide to escape the hustle and bustle of Seoul, South Korea, and open up their own lodge in the countryside. Their plans for peace and quiet, however, quickly go awry as their first guest commits suicide. Worried about the bad publicity the death might bring, they bury the body and pretend nothing happened. But, oddly, each successive guest commits suicide, and the Kangs continue to hide the corpses.

Director: Kim Ji-eon
Screenwriter: Kim Ji-eon
Production Co: Myung Film Company Ltd.
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 30, 2017
Runtime: 1h 39m

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