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The Quiet Family

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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 01/06/2019
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 Go to Full Review Film Threat 12/06/2005
3.5/5
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/21/2005
2/5
Film Threat 12/08/2002
3.5/5
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03/25/2021 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. See more 07/18/2019 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... See more 10/31/2016 Charming little black comedy from Korea See more 05/23/2016 one of the best comic horror. if you liked Death becomes her, you'll love this movie too. See more 04/01/2016 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. See more 04/01/2016 Great movie, hilarious, and suspenseful at all the right moments! It was released in 1998, not 2011 See more Read all reviews
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Kim Ji-eon

Director

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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