My Brilliant Life

Sep 3, 2014

1h 57m

★ 7.4

The Youngest Parents With The Oldest Child.

Overview

A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his parents' love story.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

CJ Entertainment

Zip Cinema

Opus Pictures

Daemyung Culture Factory

My Brilliant Life Trailers

Cast

Mi-ra

Song Hye-kyo

Dae-soo

Gang Dong-won

Ah-reum

Jo Sung-mok

Mr. Jang

Baek Il-seob

Seung-chan

Heo Joon-seok

Writer Kim

Kim So-jin

Ah-reum

Cha Eun-woo

Lee Seo-ha

Chae Seo-jin

Ah-reum's Doctor

Lee Sung-min

Dae-soo's Father

Kim Kap-soo

Aspiring to be Director

Choi Yoon-seok

Praying Woman

Hwang Seok-jeong

Jang-bu was an ordinary boy except his special talent; To see every moving thing like a slow motion video. As friends teased him by calling ‘monster eyes’, he decided to stick at home and not to go out. Television has been his only friend. Time passes by, and now grown-up Jang-bu works at the CCTV control center which is the best job for him. When he sees people’s life through camera, he feels he’s sharing their ordinary life that he’s never had. This new job opens his heart to the world and Jang-bu starts to make some friends out of the control center. With his dear friends he receives sense of himself and finally decides to propose a girl that he loved for long from CCTV…

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