Jakten på nyresteinen (1996)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Vibeke Idsøe

Writer:

Vibeke Idsøe (writer)

Release Date:

4 October 1996 (Norway)

Genre:

Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi | Fantasy

Plot:

A little kid shrinks himselfs so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to...

Plot Keywords:

Bad Breath | Cult Favorite | Young Boy | Blood Cell | Shrinking

Awards:

7 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Torbjörn T. Jensen	...	Simon
Jenny Skavlan	...	Alvéole (French Version)
Benjamin Helstad	...	Globule (French version)
Kjersti Holmen	...	Mrs. Galle
Lage Fosheim	...	Galle junior
Morten Faldaas	...	Sekret Service-agenten
Sigve Bøe	...	Stemmebåndsoperatøren
Harald Eia	...	Tåretankoperatøren
Bjørn Jenseg	...	A. Pendixrud
Jan Devo Kornstad	...	Hvitt punkterblodlegene
Tone Hulbækmo	...	Hjerteharpen
Leif Dubard	...	Hjernecentraloperatøren
Herborg Kråkevik	...	Røde kjærlighetsvakt
Helén Vikstvedt	...	Røde kjærlighetsvakt
Terje Strømdahl	...	Bestefar

Also Known As:

Body Troopers (International: English title)
Chasing the Kidneystone (USA) (Venice film festival title)

Runtime:

91 min | France:80 min

Country:

Norway

Language:

Norwegian

Color:

Color

Certification:

France:U | Norway:11 | Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Norsk film A/S, Bekkestua, Bærum, Akershus, Norway

Company:

Filmkameratene A/S

Trivia:

Visa d'exploitation en France : # 98203

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#25.13)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Wild is the wind

Whacked out, but pretty imaginative, kids flick

This is one of those kid's movies that is either a) charming, imaginative and original, or b) disturbing enough to scar you for life. Either way it's well worth a look. There's some Norwegian cultural touchstones that make me believe it's taken from source material well known in it's homeland, but works at face value level as well. The storyline involves Simon, a kid with 2 expressions and a magic teddy bear, whose Grandfather seems to be getting very sick. "Of loneliness" diagnoses the kid at every opportunity. At the urging of the frankly creepy teddy, Simon ingests a magic potion and shrinks himself down to go and help Grandpa. Once inside, he hooks up with Mapster the young white blood cell & cute piece of lung matter, Alvaoli. Together they skip through grandpa's gnarly innards meeting such characters as the Secretions Agent and Bile Duct, the bad tempered head of the gall bladder department, while they try to stop the evil Calcium Crystals who are building a stone in Grandpa's bladder. The sets and costumes in this movie are impressively designed, even if worryingly skewed towards the rubber fetishistic crowd and the effects are pretty good too. (Favourite moment was the Secretion Agent's 'wanted poster') And for those with the bent for the absurd this movie's worth a look for nothing else than the costumes and interesting look at how our bodies are put together (my appendix is WHERE?) Best watched if: under 12 or drunk.