Full House

(CPM, 2004-2005)
™ and © 2004 Sooyeon Won
CPM cancels translation of series in 2005.

Elle is a dreamy aspiring screenwriter with anger-management problems who’s just been tossed out of her architect father’s dream house. Ryder Baye is a cool, self-contained pretty-boy actor dodging tabloid accusations of being gay who’s just bought her house out from under her.

These two meet hard, as she collides with his car, and, while they don’t like each other and aren’t afraid to show it, but somehow, the compensation negotiations lead to a fake marriage between the two.

It’s all to convince the press he’s straight (a trick which hasn’t worked since the days of Rock Hudson) and keep them in close enough quarters for sparks to fly. It’s a creaky contrivance that’s suitable for a high-concept romantic comedy, but there aren’t many laughs in what’s basically a character study where love is waiting in the wings.

It’s stylishly done and gets points for being more adventurous than the average Korean comic, being set in a nicely photo-referenced London with only one Korean in the cast.

— S.A. Bennett

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