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6.9/10   2,144 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Lars Gudmestad (writer)
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Release Date:
29 August 2003 (Norway) more
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Plot:
Kristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years old and carefree. When his girlfriend Elisabeth duimps him for the boss of her trend bureau... more | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
Great Romantic Comedy more (17 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Nicolai Cleve Broch ... Kristoffer Haukeland

Aksel Hennie ... Geir
Anders Baasmo Christiansen ... Stig Inge Otnes
Pia Tjelta ... Henriette
Janne Formoe ... Elisabeth
Henrik Giæver ... Martin
Kim Haugen ... Karsten
Håvard Bakke ... Dag
Eivind Sander ... Anders
Anna Bache-Wiig ... Line
Christian Skolmen ... Nikolai
Edward Schultheiss ... Frode
Dagrun Anholt ... Irene
Hilde Olausson ... Anne
Cathrin Gram ... Ingunn (as Cathrine Gram)
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Runtime:
Norway:100 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The PR bureau with the glass and see-through office design (where the character Elisabeth works) was originally an advertisement agency that went bankrupt just weeks prior to filming. more
Movie Connections:
References "Jackass" (2000) more
Soundtrack:
Big Surprise more

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Great Romantic Comedy, 20 July 2007
8/10
Author: slake09 from Silver Lake, Ohio, USA

This is one of the best romantic comedies I've seen in a long time. Not only does it bring some originality to the genre, the characters are explored in some depth and the acting is up to anyone's standards.

Our protagonist loses his girlfriend, has a brief fling with a roommate and then....well, that's where the originality starts. The cast of characters is an offbeat crew of sign painters, slackers, neurotic web designers and environmental activists, all of them looking to make the world a better place in the midst of their love affairs and financial woes.

This is a great date movie; it raises some issues that are worth discussing in the car on the way home; you may even get away with letting your hand stray off the gearshift to your date's thigh.

I've seen other Norwegian movies and enjoyed them quite a bit, the most notable being Svidd Neger. There is a vein of sly humor running through these movies that gives them the little extra they needed to stand out in a world of generic Hollywood romances.

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