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Movie review: Sweet drama 'Sunshine Family' showcases beauty of Korea

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Vincent Garcia, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/entertainment/06/06/20190606-sunshine-family.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>Nonie Buencamino and Shamaine Buencamino play a couple who find themselves confronting their problems after getting entangled in a hit-and-run incident. They are joined by Sue Ramirez and Marco Masa. <em>Spring Films</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA -- Spring Films is quickly becoming a reliable purveyor of stories featuring Filipinos in scenic settings abroad. Here is another: &quot;Sunshine Family&quot; is set in South Korea and is about a family who find themselves entangled in a hit-and-run incident, just a few days before they were set to come home to the Philippines. </p><p>Determined to not end up in jail, they discover that picking apart a car inside their crammed home, a frantic attempt to hide the evidence of their crime, is not nearly as difficult as keeping their bonds from falling apart.</p><p>There are a number of bumps in the road in this genuinely funny comedy, the biggest one being the witnesses who are trying to extort them for money. It was a problem that was disappointingly solved with a throwaway line during its rushed conclusion (the final parts were bordering weird, telling us perhaps there was not a clear ending in mind) but the movie’s charm lies in its characters and not in its plot anyway. </p><p>A spotlight stealer is their neighbor’s Korean grandfather, used in a recurring gag that helps maintain the overall sunny mood, while Nonie and Shamaine Buencamino deliver in the funniest moment of the movie where they try, as a couple who have grown distant from one another, to have sex inside their half-disassembled car. </p><p>Underused were Sue Ramirez and Marco Masa, whose characters (the latter is a bullied, young gay kid) felt no more than one-dimensional foils for their dad. </p><p>“Sunshine Family” is nothing groundbreaking, but there are laughs, plenty of swooning images of South Korea, and a lesson to be taken about not abandoning family. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vsEw9saFUak?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>"Sunshine Family" is set in South Korea and is about a family who find themselves entangled in a hit-and-run incident, just a few days before they were set to come home to the Philippines. </p>

"Sunshine Family" is set in South Korea and is about a family who find themselves entangled in a hit-and-run incident, just a few days before they were set to come home to the Philippines.

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Movie review: Sweet drama 'Sunshine Family' showcases beauty of Korea

Vincent Garcia,

ABS-CBN News

Published June 06, 2019 02:10 PM PHT

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Sunshine Family

Spring Films

Kim Tai Sik

Nonie Buencamino

Shamaine Buencamino

Sue Ramirez

Marco Masa

South Korea

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