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Aberdeen

  • 20002000
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  • 1h 46m
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Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey in Aberdeen (2000)
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A mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He's drunk at the airport, so they... Read allA mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He's drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.A mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He's drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.
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    • Hans Petter Moland
    • Tony Spataro
    • Hans Petter Moland(screenplay)
    • Kristin Amundsen(screenplay)
    • Lars Bill Lundholm(based on an idea by)
  • Stars
    • Stellan Skarsgård
    • Lena Headey
    • Jean Johansson
    • Hans Petter Moland
    • Tony Spataro
    • Hans Petter Moland(screenplay)
    • Kristin Amundsen(screenplay)
    • Lars Bill Lundholm(based on an idea by)
  • Stars
    • Stellan Skarsgård
    • Lena Headey
    • Jean Johansson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 36User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
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    Stellan Skarsgård
    Stellan Skarsgård
    • Tomas
    Lena Headey
    Lena Headey
    • Kaisa
    Jean Johansson
    Jean Johansson
    • Kaisa as a Child
    • (as Jean Anderson)
    Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling
    • Helen
    Louise Goodall
    • Sara
    Jason Hetherington
    • Perkins
    Kate Lynn Evans
    • Emily
    John Killoran
    • Blake
    John Harwood
    • Huddleson
    Sara-Marie Maltha
    Sara-Marie Maltha
    • Receptionist
    • (as Sarah Marie Maltha)
    Fergus McLarnon
    • Eric
    Anders T. Andersen
    Anders T. Andersen
    • Customs Official
    Henriette Steenstrup
    • Car Rental Clerk
    Kari Simonsen
    • Waitress
    Jan Grønli
    • Granbakken
    Gard B. Eidsvold
    Gard B. Eidsvold
    • Disagreeable Man
    • (as Gard Eidsvold)
    Frøydis Armand
    • Alcoholic Woman
    Lise Roestad
    • Party Guest
    • (as Lise Rostad)
      • Hans Petter Moland
      • Tony Spataro
      • Hans Petter Moland(screenplay) (based on an idea by)
      • Kristin Amundsen(screenplay)
      • Lars Bill Lundholm(based on an idea by)
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      Nina Andresen Borud's debut.
    • Quotes

      Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller: Fine, call security. Fucking Bitch, d'ya know that?

      [puts middle finger up at her]

      Airline Stewardess: Is that supposed to be a threat?

      Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller: Err, no, no. It's an index finger you dimwit, but that

      [shows a fist]

      Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller: ... that's a fist. But not for hitting... for fist-fucking tight arsed pussies like your good self!

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      I Get Along Without You Very Well
      Text and Music Hoagy Carmichael

      Published by Famous Music Inc.

      Courtesy of BMG Music Publishing Scandinavia AB

      Performed by Chet Baker

      © 1997 Blue Note Records, a registered trademark of Capitol Records

      Courtesy of EMI Norsk AS

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    9/10
    Superlative performances, great storyline - one of the best of the year
    Showing as part of the European Film Festival currently in Brisbane, Aberdeen is a strong, narrative driven movie of a daughter sent to Norway by her dying mother to bring back her father so that the terminally ill mother can see him and her for the last time before she dies.

    All the performances in this stellar outing are first class. Stellan Skarsgård as the alcoholic, former oil rig working father is simply outstanding. He plays a man losing a battle with the bottle so convincingly that it makes you seriously wonder whether he has personal experience on which to draw from for his performance.

    Charlotte Rampling plays the cancer-stricken mother; even though she spends the majority of the movie talking over the phone from her hospital bed she brings to the character a dignity that is totally believable.

    Ian Hart plays a English truck driver who stumbles across the daughter and father returning home from Norway and helps them out. With his shaved head I hardly recognised this veteran actor - but he again puts in another superlative performance as he comes to grips with the dynamics at play in this unique family

    But the standout performance is that of Lena Headey, playing the daughter entrusted with the task of bringing her errant father to Aberdeen. She's also someone battling with their demons - she is a drug addict, nympho and does not take to trusting people easily. Having to bring home her father (whom she hates) to a mother (whom she also hates) is yet another thing to speak poorly of and bemoan her lack of a life.

    I thought Lena was a relative newcomer to the acting scene - but a cursory look at IMDB revealed a wealth of acting gigs that I was not aware of. But 'Aberdeen' has to be one of her first leading roles; she is one to look out for in the future.

    She won the Silver Iris award for Best Actress at the Brussell Film Festival last year.

    The movie is described as a 'dark road movie'. Now when I watched it it didn't appear particularly dark - perhaps that says more about what I class as 'dark' in a movie than the tag line writer for these movies! It certainly is 'real', and 'gritty'.

    If you get a chance to see this one when the festival rolls into town (some states haven't got it yet so you may still get a chance) you wouldn't go far wrong with this as one of your choices.

    9 out of 10.
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      • September 8, 2000 (Norway)
      • United Kingdom
      • Sweden
      • Norway
      • English
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      • Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
    • Production companies
      • Filmfabriken Baltic Sea AB
      • Freeway Films
      • Norsk Film
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