A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.
- Awards
- 15 wins & 11 nominations
Jeon Do-yeon
- Eun-yi Li
- (as Do-youn Jeon)
Youn Yuh-jung
- Byung-sik
- (as Yuh-jung Youn)
Ahn Seo-hyun
- Na-mi
- (as Seo-hyun Ahn)
Hwang Jung-min
- Eun-yi's Friend
- (as Jung-min Hwang)
Moon So-ri
- Obstetrician
- (as Moon So-Ri)
Kim Jin-ah
- Doctor
- (as Jin-ah Kim)
Hyeon-kyeong Lim
- Yoga Instructor
- (as Hyun-kyung Lim)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAround 1 hr 9 min, when Eun-yi is sitting on a bed, in the background is a large piece of art with English words faintly visible on it. The words are a quotation from Nathanael West's novel Miss Lonleyhearts, a work with many themes that mirror those in this movie such as depression, lonliness, drinking, adultery, and physical abuse.
- GoofsThe body harness is visible during the hanging.
- Quotes
Hae-ra's Mother: With a rich husband, cheating is just part of the package.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2010 (2010)
- SoundtracksLa Mamma Morta
from the opera, "Andrea Chinier"
Performed by Maria Callas
Composed by Umberto Giordano
Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd.
By arrangement with Warner Music Korea, a Warner Music Group Company
Featured review
This reminded me of Ki-duk Kim films and the visual style of Park Chan-wook films. It's basically a remake of the 1960's movie, that basically has to do with the downfall of a housemaid from working in some rich guy's house. Although the 2010 version differs from the original in many aspects, but that doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing because it has it's own style to hold it's own. Jeon Do-Yeon plays a sweethearted and kind housemaid that grew up in a harsh environment and tries to make a living by becoming a housemaid. Her performance was amazing and Seo Woo did a decent job of playing the spoiled brat as always. And later gets tormented by the wife and the wife's mother of the house, in a very vicious manner. In fact the whole family is crazy except the daughter. This is a dark movie with a handful of sex scenes and graphic parts. There are few foreshadowing in this, but the end irritated me, because karma does not come into play. But it just shows the dark side to reality.
7.9/10
7.9/10
- KineticSeoul
- Sep 9, 2010
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- Also known as
- Người Hầu Gái
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $157,961
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,670
- Jan 23, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $15,038,301
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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