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Hawaii, Oslo (2004)
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Hawaii, Oslo (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the year, in Oslo. We follow Frode and Milla. They are having their first child, who they are told will not live long. We follow Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. We follow Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac who is loking for Åsa, to whom he has a ten year old deal to get married. We meet Leon's brother, Trygve, who fetches Leon at the institution to celebrate his birthday, but who himself has plans to use his leave from prison to run away. And most of all we meet the angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone - except himself?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, anthology, art house, cult classic, bleak, cult film
Audience: chick flick
Plot: childhood sweetheart, angel, hopes, family relations, siblings relations, human nature, love, loneliness, baby, multiple storylines, moral dilemma, nordic, destiny, mental disorder, summer, refugee, immigrant, dream, babies and infants, on the run, group of strangers, prison, pregnancy, suicidal, birthday ...
Time: contemporary
Place: europe, oslo norway
Keyword: vulgarity, norwegian, norway, poster

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