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The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Original title: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
  • 20132013
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  • 1h 54m
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Robert Gustafsson in The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
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After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
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    • Felix Herngren
    • Felix Herngren(screenplay)
    • Hans Ingemansson(screenplay)
    • Jonas Jonasson(novel)
  • Stars
    • Robert Gustafsson
    • Iwar Wiklander
    • David Wiberg
    • Felix Herngren
    • Felix Herngren(screenplay)
    • Hans Ingemansson(screenplay)
    • Jonas Jonasson(novel)
  • Stars
    • Robert Gustafsson
    • Iwar Wiklander
    • David Wiberg
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    • 71User reviews
    • 140Critic reviews
    • 58Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Robert Gustafsson
    Robert Gustafsson
    • Allan Karlsson
    Iwar Wiklander
    • Julius
    David Wiberg
    • Benny Ljungberg
    Mia Skäringer
    Mia Skäringer
    • Gunilla
    Jens Hultén
    Jens Hultén
    • Gäddan
    David Shackleton
    • Herbert Einstein
    Ralph Carlsson
    Ralph Carlsson
    • Chief Inspector Göran Aronsson
    Georg Nikoloff
    Georg Nikoloff
    • Iouli Popov
    Alan Ford
    Alan Ford
    • Pim
    Simon Säppenen
    • Bulten
    Sven Lönn
    • Hans Claesson aka Hinken
    Bianca Cruzeiro
    • Caracas
    Gustav Deinoff
    • Ricky Claesson
    Tumba
    • Sonja the Elephant
    Sonja
    • Sonja the Elephant
    Thnog Suk
    • Sonja the Elephant
    Sergej Merkusjev
    • Oleg Popov
    Manuel Dubra
    • Esteban
      • Felix Herngren
      • Felix Herngren(screenplay)
      • Hans Ingemansson(screenplay)
      • Jonas Jonasson(novel)
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    • Trivia
      Actor Robert Gustafsson was 48 at the time the movie was released, 52 years younger than the character he played.
    • Goofs
      Elephants cannot sit down as depicted in the movie. The trick was done using a fake elephant's bottom.
    • Quotes

      Allan Karlsson: If you want to kill me, you'd better hurry, because I'm 100 years old.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Oscars (2016)
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      Don Salvatore
      Composed and Performed by Mattias Eklund

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    7/10
    Entertaining black comedy á la Forrest Gump
    The Jonas Jonasson novel "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out the Window and Vanished" has been a gigantic success in Sweden, selling more that 250.000 copies. A success that has spread to a lot of other countries as well. I read the book just days before I saw the world premiere on this, as I got the book as a x-mas gift, just two days before the premiere.

    Well, to make a long story short, this is an unlikely black comedy in style of Forrest Gump, though darker and way more stupid, and filled with more stupid humans. Other films it's in class with here would be "Fargo", "One night at McCools", "Seven psychopaths" a.s.o. The book functions, and I'm glad to say that the narrative grips made on this as a script works as well. It's a good farce, which will give out many laughs. The two hours goes like it's one.

    The 100 years old Allan runs away from his birthday party, and starts a story which only he could be behind. Inwise decisions gives severe results, and looking back on his own life, he's done it before. He's made both tragedy's as well as things leading to happier consequences. They have tried to lock him up more than once, but he's not the easiest to detain.

    I enjoyed the film in a quite crowded cinema, which already started laughing at the first scene, and so i t went on. A mixed audience, with surprisingly many pensioners, which have read the book, will probably guarantee the film to be an even bigger success than the novel. At least, that's my guess.

    Well, how well is the novel brought to the screen, then? Well, surprisingly well, I would say. The most boring parts of the book is when Allan thinks back, and this is narrated down, so that the story happening present is the main thing. That's a major thing in making this work. There's been some minor changes done to shorten the travel, which unfolds like some kind of a trip or road movie, if you like, just as the book.

    The make up is brilliant, and way better than we've seen in Hollywood films (!). Amazing. Robert Gustafsson, playing Allan, is just turning 50, but here he looks perfect both in the twenties, the thirties and as 100 years old. (Well, maybe he looks eighty-something more than 100, but still it's quite passable.)

    Some of the CGI isn't exactly brilliant. This I see much better in Norwegian movies. Especially all the explosions are bad, but it doesn't hurt the story, since it's far from believable anyway. The famous persons portrayed are also quite good. The casting is well done, also when it comes to the actors playing the younger Allan. What annoys extremely is the music, which not only is stupid and too "funny", it's also very high in the sound mix. This is the worst bit of the movie. There's also some goofs, like the frozen guy and a tank lid closing itself, while driving away, but still not very big issues.

    So very well done, and the best Swedish comedy I've seen in many years. Thanks to a great staff, a quite large budget (63 millions SEK) and wonderful actors. (I'm sure it will play in the money!) The book is well taken care of, and if you enjoyed the movie, you'll find a lot more in the book, now with the clients you've seen here.
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      • May 8, 2015 (United States)
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