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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $2 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 2001 DVD Release : 19 November, 2002 |
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Elling description This Norwegian comedy (nominated for an Academy Award®) concerns two men being released from a state home. Until the death of his mother, Elling rarely left the apartment where they lived; Kjell has lived in institutions most of his life and is obsessed with sex, as any virgin in his 30s might be. Thanks to a new social program, the two roommates ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | The Odd Couple meet Bennie and Joon |
| This is one of those feel-good movies that must be shared with family and friends because we all know people like these two men.
These two men had spent two years together in a mental institution, sleeping in dorm-like rooms. When they are released and housed together in a welfare apartment (A very NICE welfare apartment!) both men continue to share a bedroom because they have never been left alone. They spend their time together talking about how to conquer the outside world. At first the audience worries about Elling, the older man, the "Mama's Boy" because his life prior to being institutionalized was all about his mother. He didn't dare venture outside; he was quite content spending his time in his apartment and reading his books. His roommate, a Prince Valliant sort of younger man who seems to have an aversion to showering and keeping clean, has his own issues to deal with. He ventures outside but in the persuit of food. He does very little talking. So as these two slowly make it outside, we are left wondering who of the two will be the first to make it big, and the surprise is quite ironic. By meeting others around them, these two men realize that they aren't really all that crazy afterall. Everyone around them has issues. The scenery of the Norwegian countryside, the city shots of Oslo and the overall quick dialogue of these two odd balls make for a wonderful 90 minutes of vicarious travel to a country I've never been. The soundtrack was also quite beautiful. |
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