Wonderful Nightmare () is a 2015 South Korean fantasy romantic comedy film starring Uhm Jung-hwa and Song Seung-heon.
The early Korean working title literally translates to Wonderful Nightmare (), which was retained for the international English title.
Plot Yeon-woo is a successful lawyer who gets into an automobile accident leading her to fall into a coma. She wakes in heaven to find that her death was a clerical error and it was actually an old woman with the same name who was meant to die.
To hide the mistake, she is asked to live as another woman – a housewife who was also killed by mistake – for just one month. Married to a very ordinary civil servant named Sung-hwan with a difficult teenage daughter and a precocious six-year-old, Yeon-woo finds herself changing in unexpected ways as well as facing challenges she hasn't faced before.
Cast
Uhm Jung-hwa as Lee Yeon-woo Song Seung-heon as Kim Sung-hwan Kim Sang-ho as Chief Lee Ra Mi-ran as Mi-sun Seo Shin-ae as Kim Ha-neul Lee Seung-ho as Kyeong-ho Jung Ji-hoon as Kim Ha-roo Lee Seung-ho as Choi Kyung-hoon Lee Jun-hyeok as Section chief Choi Kim Byung-chul as Jin-man Go Soo-hee as Head of women's society Kim Jae-man as Section chief Park Jo Duk-jae as Doo-man Hwang Geum-byul as Senior Jo Yoon Boo-jin as Hyun-seo's mother Lee Mi-yoon as Sung-soo's mother Park Yoo-mil as Min-ah's mother Lee Yong-nyeo as Kyung-rae Lee Woo-joo as Hyun-seo Yoon Joo as Ji-min Seol Ji-yoon as Ji-min's mother Kang Eun-ah as So-ra Bae Min-jung as Woman in formal dress Kim Young-moo as Kyung-hoon's lawyer Lee Jong-goo as Mr. Kim, the guard Heo Jung-eun as Chan-mi Lee Hye-rin as Ji-woo Kwon Soo-jung as young Yeon-woo Ahn So-yeon as student-age Yeon-woo Park Sang-hyuk as Yeon-woo's assistant Go On as Park Chan-jin Hwang Suk-ha as Team leader Kim Kim Do-yeon as Resident Yang Do-yeon as Lawyer Park Kim Byung-choon as Principal (cameo) Yeom Dong-heon as Head of the district (cameo) Kim Hye-na as Yeon-woo's mother (cameo) Choi Il-hwa as Chairman Park (cameo) Jung Ji-yoon as Pharmacist (cameo) Jung Yoo-suk as Public prosecutor Choi (cameo)
Adaptations A Taiwanese film adaptation titled Beautiful Accident was released in 2017, starring Gwei Lun-mei and Chen Kun.
In December 2023, it was announced that a Philippine film adaptation of the same title will be released in 2024, to be starred by Sarah Geronimo and Matteo Guidicelli, but this was shelved due to still unknown reasons. More than two years later, it was announced in February 2026 that Jerald Napoles and Kim Molina will star in the Philippine adaptation, with a scheduled release on February 25, 2026; the release date was eventually rescheduled to April 4, 2026 in order to make way for the real-life wedding of Molina and Napoles.
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient Result201552nd Grand Bell AwardsBest ActressUhm Jung-hwa
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