[REVIEW] 'Mismatch' finds light humor in role reversals

In the comedy drama "Mismatch," Bong-su (Oh Dae-hwan) has long felt like a burden to his family following a failed business venture. With him on the sidelines, his wife, Sung-hye (Oh Yoon-ah), stepped up as the breadwinner and eventually built a small wallpaper company from the ground up. Now, working under his wife's roof, Bong-su remains seen as incompetent by those around him, including Sung-hye herself, all while secretly clinging to his old dream of making it as a stage actor, one he never got the chance to follow. One day, an unfortunate accident leaves him with a severe head injury, one that muddles his sense of who the people around him really are. He begins mixing everyone up, mistaking his wife for his daughter, his daughter for a friend, his father for his brother and his brother for his boss. Treating everyone around him as whoever he thinks they are, the film finds humors in the chaos: Bong-su scolds his father as if he were a disobedient son and hangs out with his daughter's friends as though they were his own. With his wife, whom he now believes to be his daughter, he beco

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