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Teddy Bear (2012)

Not Rated | | Drama | 22 August 2012 (USA)
The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a ... See full summary »

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David Winters ...
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Elsebeth Steentoft ...
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John Winters ...
Jeff
Barbara Zatler ...
Sasha
Chanicha Shindejanichakul ...
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Mia Maria Back ...
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Lamaiporn Hougaard ...
Toi
Eva Thompson ...
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Lars
Per Otto Bersang Rasmussen ...
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Paweena Im-Erb ...
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Prap Poramabhuti ...
Prap
Songporn Na Bangchang ...
Nuu
Sukianya Suwan ...
Aoi
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The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love is easier to find in Thailand. He knows that his mother would never accept another woman in his life, so he lies and tells her that he is going to Germany. Dennis has never been out traveling before and the hectic Pattaya is a huge cultural shock for him. The intrusive Thai girls give big bruises to Dennis' naive picture of what love should be like, and he is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the Thai woman Toi. Written by SF Film

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$4,680 (USA) (31 August 2012)

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$16,135 (USA) (31 August 2012)
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This is a gentle and elegant movie, not a plot movie, not a story movie

It's a "feeling" movie. It's about a mood, a feeling. Inside one person, searching for it in another person. The feeling is gentleness. And the pervasive powerful, insistent sense of it coming out of such a person, is just... amazing.

It's totally a visual movie. The content and plot are nothing to be concerned with, they are Normal.

Watch how Abnormal this guy is. Watch how he persistently avoids the Normal and finds another person like himself. (She's actually quite a bit more normal than he is)

He is a Mountain, a Monument of abnormality, dedicated to being gentle in a world that is almost completely unable to let me (or any of us, for the matter) be gentle.

And it's Not just his nature, it's also a dedication. And somehow he Uses that bodybuilding to reinforce his gentleness. He Moves gently.

It's quite a performance. I have no idea who he is, or what he actually is like, nor do I care. But here, he and the director have built... and elephant of a person. Huge, powerful, and gentle.

Joy to watch.


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