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Summary: This is what you have been looking for!
Review: Occasionally life offers pearls that are accessible. This is one of them. Buy it, please! You will be richer for it.
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Summary: DVD quality is worst I've seen - get the video
Review: One of my favorite flicks of all time (after seeing it on video), but the DVD quality couldn't be worse! Real poor, amateurish conversion. Desperately needs a redo. Give it to Criterion Collection and let them do it RIGHT!
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Summary: One of my best 5 (but don't miss the helicopter ^_^)
Review: See it. Heartwarming.
Make you think of your younger days-your brothers and parents.
Make you smile.
Something are growing at those ages!
Definitely one of my best 5 movies. And final bonus. When they were filming the train from the birds' view, they forgot the legs of helicopter. Enjoy it.
9/11/2001
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Summary: Unforgetable
Review: Sure the summary of the movie isn't eye catching to some, but its a movie that should be seen, damnit! I mean it. This is a story about a little boy named Ingemar whos relationship with his loving mother slowly falls apart due to her sickness.Ingemar is soon sent away to live with his uncle and aunt for the summer.This movie is charming and has a great cast of quirky charcters.
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Summary: Lasse Hallstrom Did It Again
Review: the reason i have the chance to see this excellent movie is because our english film-study project is based on the film. i think the boy Ingemal is as eccentric and intriguing at the same time.The characteristic of his uncle is also very amusing and interesting. Overall this film deserves good critics and thumbs-up performance by the boy. If you're a true film lover,it would be a loss if you miss it!
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Summary: A film like this comes along once in a decade.
Review: This film, so my mother assures me, was to the 1980's what Visconti's "Death in Venice" was to the 1970's. People went to see it again and again in the cinema and argued about it's meaning for years afterwards. Whatever this film has, it touches a nerve. Whether it's the remarkable performance of Anton Glanzelius or the whole 'growing up' thing, I don't know. Glanzelius appears so vulnerable one wants to take him home and bring him up as one's own kid brother. I know of people who made sound tapes of the film in the cinema before the fim was available on video just to hear the kid speak Swedish. [The video version looks worse than the pirate video I made in a cinema in Manhatten, but never mind]. It's a great great film, and, a sort of pre-pubescent Fight Club in it's way.
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Summary: Extremely well-made
Review: This is an extremely well-made movie. It honestly shows how the boy dealt with the confusion of growing up, and also of growing up in unusually stressful situations (such as moving alot and living with a mother with a disorder). It is heart-warming, true to life, and the acting was top-notch. It contains lots of beneath the surface "artsy" elements that stress the meaning of the movie (off the top of my head example: towards the end he watches glass being reshaped and hardened into a new shape, paralell to the transition in his own life). Great film.
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Summary: My favorite reminder of my life as a little boy
Review: This is now my favourite film. I have rarely enjoyed such fresh and pure emotions expressed on film. A truly bouying and reviving experience reminding one of the fears and wonderment of ones earlier days.
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Summary: VHS version, not DVD: Wonderful and Poignant
Review: This is the story of a 12-year-old Swedish boy named Ingemar whose mother is depressed, ill, and neglectful, and whose father is absent. The boy is naturally bewildered and, when he lets himself see the reality of his situation, sad. Anton Glanzelius plays Ingemar superbly. I'm a therapist and have worked with American versions of Ingemar (sadly) many times. He tries to make life interesting and fun through mischief, and blunders into many a tangle. Ingemar is saved when his childless aunt and uncle, who are well-off and live in the country, unofficially adopt him. Despite the improvement in his life, Ingemar (very realistically) is ambivalent about the change, as he misses his mother, his dog, and even his older brother, with whom he had a (realistically) ambivalent relationship. However, he gradually settles in, while continuing his inept but funny and benign mischief. I know that I've used "realistic" several times already, but this movie makes use of that word unavoidable. It is sad, funny, poignant, tragic, and triumphant, and totally unforgettable. Don't rent it; buy it and watch it periodically. Watch it with your child(ren) at your side and discuss it afterward. Or, watch it alone, and just enjoy life, with all of its pain and joy and confusion and clarity. As I said in the title of this review, I watched the VHS version of this movie and have never seen the DVD version, which I've heard is disappointingly poor in picture quality.
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Summary: Best Movie I've seen
Review: This is truly a bery good well acted,written,and produced film. I can't stop watching it. I'm not very fluent in Swedish,but the subtitles are great. You really get a feel for the Swedush culture. Rent or buy this movie,you wont regreat it!
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