Almost 18 (2012) ( Kohta 18 ) ( Almost Eighteen (Ihan kohta 18) )

Almost 18 (2012) (Blu-Ray) (*)

Out of Stock

Original Title: Kohta 18
Alternate Title: Almost Eighteen (Ihan kohta 18)
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Finnish ( Dolby Linear PCM )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Maarit Lalli

Written By:
Maarit Lalli
Henrik Mäki-Tanila

Actors:
Henrik Mäki-Tanila ..... Karri
Elina Knihtilä ..... Karri's mother
Karim Al-Rifai ..... André
Werner Lalli ..... Max
Mari Perankoski ..... André's mother
Anton Thompson Coon ..... Pete
Elsa Pajanen ..... Kiira
Hannu-Pekka Björkman ..... Pete's father
Tarja Heinula ..... Pete's Mother
Arttu Lähteenmäki ..... Akseli
Ilari Johansson ..... Akseli's father
Esko Roine ..... Akseli's Grandfather
Marja Packalén ..... Akseli's grandmother
Ben Thompson Coon ..... Joni
Niina Nurminen ..... Joni's mother

Synopsis:

KARRI, 17, takes his last driving lesson with his own taxi-driver mother as the teacher. She wants to discuss serious things in life. The wheel turns into the wrong direction right on the home yard. Finland loses in ice-hockey to Sweden again, and mother smells alcohol in her son's breath. PETE, 17, soothes his girlfriend who has taken an abortion pill. Guilt for killing a living being does not leave Pete in peace. ANDRÉ, 17, has to pick up his little brother from the kindergarten for the third time this week. Mother is again "working extra hours". After midnight mother comes home stone drunk and with a colleague from her workplace in her arms. AKSELI, 17, heads off to spend a weekend in the country with his grandparents who have, unbeknownst to Akseli, invited his father, an ex-alcoholic. Father and son take off deer-hunting in the forest, in a tiny hunters' hideaway where silence has to be total. JONI, 18, has a summer job at the Linnanmäki amusement park as a wolf who attracts all teenage girls to his furry arms. After hours Joni freelances as a stripper for grown-up ladies to finance his drug habits.

There were five of us guys. We stuck together through thick and thin - most of the time. I think we all had normal families. Normal problems. Normal feelings. There was nothing we couldn´t overcome. And then one year, for some reason, everything started going to shit.

Almost 18 is a charming and unaffected film about five 17-year-old guys from Helsinki in 2010. Karri, Peter, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 May, 2014.