NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

besherat A good movie with a wonderful actor Stellan Skarsgård. and Lena Headey was excellent too. Hans Petter Moland did it well,but not as good as he did in " The beautiful country ".

dwpollar 1st watched 12/31/2009 – 4 out of 10(Dir-Hans Petter Moland): Honest yet non-conclusive drama about the reconciliation of a separated family brought about by the dying wishes of a mother with cancer. This is a well acted movie and doesn't try to fluff up anything to make it look better than it is, but there was no real punch to affect the viewer. Basically, the story is about a daughter who accepts the mother's wish to bring her alcohol-addicted father to see her in the hospital. Her real hope is that the father and daughter will reconcile during the trip but this is a hard pill to swallow. The father stays drunk thru most of the trip and the daughter expectedly stays hard-nosed and her negative side is revealed thru their experiences. They meet up with a helpful truck driver whom the daughter eventually beds and learns to respect as he sticks around long enough to help them get to their destination. This side story is nice and there is the other issue as to whether the father and daughter are really biological father and daughter which adds some twists as well. All in all though, there is a lot of pain in this story that never really gets resolved --- so it's hard to like the movie. The makers really work hard to make you sympathize and to me this is very obvious. All in all, this is an OK movie but it didn't give you much to hold onto in it's entirety.

fuga_mundi one of the summaries about this film states that "Every Alcoholic should see this one". wow! seems just a bit too "American Dream". first of all it is European and as my great anthropology professor said to me once: "i've never met an European that was NOT an alcoholic", but not by the objective standards! perhaps i could add, in a state of a rapid emotion and not reason (for i'm European and probably i'm already drunk), that i've never met an American that said anything smart about europeans. anyways, THIS IS NOT A Hollywood FRIENDLY FILM, or it just has very few friends in "hollywood"(try to realize what that word really means). maybe because of that the very creator still lies unknown, but should he be forgotten? a story made for people and not their imitations. i am aware that most of the viewers would rather enjoy terror of war in special effects, laughing and cheering in their joy - dude! somehow natural became abnormal to them, and it's not so entertaining anymore. a simple beauty of a woman's breast seems not proper, becomes obscene, and eventually is censored in order to protect their young ones - yes! just buy them another play station and let them educate themselves."aberdeen" is my #1 and so is Hans Petter Molland. i see in it the very human beings in their faults, sins, their downfalls as well as their resurrections - vision of, non-the-less, us (you and me). for point to me a perfect man and i will name a god after him - you can quote me on that:) enjoy

JesNollie A wonderfully written and acted, but depressing road trip movie. As a favor to her dying mother, a young woman must find her alcoholic father (played by Stellen Skarsgard, who is heart-wrenchingly convincing in the role), who abandoned them when she was a child. As they travel together, they must face both the past and present. But don't expect a Hollywood feel-good reunion movie, this is much more harsh and real.