The Almost Man ( Mer eller mindre mann )

The Almost Man (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Mer eller mindre mann
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Norwegian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Norway ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
74 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

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

Directed By:
Martin Lund

Written By:
Martin Lund

Actors:
Henrik Rafaelsen ..... Henrik
Egil Birkeland ..... Paul
Kim Eidhagen ..... Fredrik
Solvei Grimen Fosse ..... Mia
Ina Therese Lerner Grevstad ..... Henriette
Aslag Guttormsgaard ..... Mann medvin
Erik Haugstad ..... Busssjåfør
Janne Heltberg ..... Tone
Kristine Hessvik ..... Mor i bil
Per Kjerstad ..... Kenneth
Elisabeth Lahr ..... Dame med navnelapper
Polly Lahr ..... Seminarvertinne
Anne Ma Usterud ..... Henriks mor
Terje Ranes ..... Simen
Tore Sagen ..... Henning
Ågot Sendstad ..... Sjef
Julie Skaufel ..... Dame på busstopp
Tov Sletta ..... Geir
Tone Sletteland ..... Torunn
Anne Storberget ..... Stine
Morten Svartveit ..... Mann med vin

Synopsis:

The long hard road to growing up and accepting responsibility takes the center stage in Martin Lund's simply and astutely observed tale about one thirty five year-old man's coming of age episode, The Almost Man. While certainly not unfamiliar in scope, Lund delivers a charmingly realistic portrait of the dogged, insistent clamp many of us try to retain on those carefree days of young adulthood with a film unhampered by requisite hypersexualization and stylized vulgar antics to meet the entertainment quota of the lowest common denominator.

Goofy, playful, and seemingly never serious, Henrik (Henrik Rafelson) currently enjoys a carefree life alongside his live-in girlfriend, Tone (Janne Heltberg Haarseth). They have just moved into a new apartment meant to foster the next, more adult chapter of their life together, and Henrik has landed a new marketing position. While everything seems peachy, the stimulus of these new situations finds Henrik acting out in bizarre adolescent fashion, such as getting testy with some of Tone's colleagues at a work party, which leads to him urinating in one of their cars using an illustrated picture book of Peter Pan (get that irony?) as a tool in this act of vandalism. Catching him in the act, Henrik flees the party to go hang out with his buddies, a group of chummy men he's obviously known for years. Previously we've seen them bonding in the locker room after squash, engaging in towel snapping and other homosocial fraternizing. They happen to be throwing their own party, which looks and sounds exactly like a group of out of control teens as they pee off balconies, show off genitalia, play music too loudly, and eat party snacks while they make out. Disaster strikes when it turns out the neighbor below happens to be one of Henrik's new co-workers, which ends in a physical altercation that will most likely have disastrous effects in Henrik's work environment. Stumbling back home, the next morning a dismayed Tone has some important news to give him, which doesn't seem like such good news after he explains just what he got up to the night before.

35 year old Henrik is to establish himself with a pregnant girlfriend in a new apartment and start a new job. But he has some rather childish childhood friends, and is Henrik really ready to go from boy to more ore less a man?

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 March, 2015.

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