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Dad for Rent

2014 · 112 min

A gentle, mildly comic family drama that coasts on warmth and small embarrassments, asking you to root for a flawed dad without much strain.

Tagline
Fatherhood Is Serious Business
Overview
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • work
  • identity
  • redemption
Places
  • home
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, family
Directed by
Kim Deok-su
Written by
Kim Deok-su
Starring
Kim Sang-kyung, Moon Jeong-hee, Nam Bo-ra, Bang Min-ah, Chae Jung-an, Jo Jae-yun, Choi Da-in, Lee Do-gyeong
Music
Kim Dong-wook
Cinematography
Lee Jong-youl
Runtime
112 min
Country
South Korea
Languages
Korean

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