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Synopsis: When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own. Initially, the simple act of going around the corner for groceries is a challenge. Through a friendship born of desperate dependence, the skittish Elling and the boisterous, would-be lover of women, Kjell Bjarne, discover they can not only survive on the outside, they can thrive. But as their courage grows, the two find oddball ways to cope with society, striking up the most peculiar friendships in the most unlikely places.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director(s): Petter Næss

Actors: Per Christian Ellefsen, Sven Nordin, Marit Pia Jacobsen, Jørgen Langhelle

Production: First Look Pictures

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 4 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.6
Metacritic:: 70
Rotten Tomatoes:: 85%

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: R
Year:: 2001
: 89 min
: $63,227
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shaved men, not 14-day-old sweat...
It hasn't been 14 days. Ten, max!
That's the last time I go shopping!
Wrong number again.
Elling?
Kjell Bjarne?
Are you in there?
Why don't you answer the phone?
It must be broken.
I've dialed again and again.
It doesn't work.
Shape up, boys.
You have to stick to our deal.
If this is to work, I have to be able
to reach you by phone.
Kjell Bjarne...
Fine.
We'll just have to practice again.
- I have to organize my toolbox.
- No, you are both coming with me.
When the phone rings, you pick up
the receiver and say hello.
Elling first.
Let's pretend it's ringing.
Ring. Ring.
Answer the phone.
- Answer, Elling.
- Pick it up and say hello.
Come on.
Come on, Elling.
- Hello?
- Hi. It's Frank. How are you?
- Pick it up!
- Hi, I'm thirsty. Likewise. Bye.
Great, Elling. One more time.
Mother handled all our phone calls at home.
Your mother is dead. This is your home now.
You have to answer.
Say something, Elling.
Talk, Elling!
It's not natural to talk into a plastic gizmo
to someone you can't even see!
You need to get out more among people.
Why have an apartment if we have
to leave it all the time?
If you don't do as I say, you won't
have an apartment at all.
Elling, maybe we should go out like Frank says.
No women are going to come here
if they don't know we live here.
We don't have to go out to
meet women, Kjell Bjarne.
Frank deserves credit for teaching
us how to use the phone.
I just love sex! I'm sitting here
playing with myself. Touch my tits...
Four thousand kroner!
It's your choice: P*ssy talk or apartment?
You don't meet people over the phone!
You have enough money.
It's a matter of prioritizing.
That's what I tell Kjell Bjarne.
Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize!
- I've never heard that.
- Yes, you have!
Shut up!
A final warning:
Stick to our deal.
I want to see progress.
I said we should go out.
Where, with minus 4000 kroner?
A Salvation Army soup kitchen?
- Good idea. Let's go to the movies.
- No.
- Come on, Elling.
- No.
Two against one.
That's how it's always been.
But when three grown men argue,
the tone can get pretty rough.
- Best damn movie I've ever seen!
- Good movie, Elling?
I consider myself a modern
liberal man of the town, -
- but I refuse to applaud
the breakdown of society!
- It was a comedy.
- Didn't you get it?
It was not funny. You don't
understand anything.
Nothing's good enough for you.
I can't talk to you when you're in that mood.
- Let's go eat.
- Not out again, Frank.
- You had to come home to crap.
- Public restrooms are not my forte.
I look forward to seeing what your forte is!
No smoking in here.

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Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (born 20 May 1956) is a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: Utsikt til paradiset (1993), Fugledansen (1995), Brødre i blodet (1996), and Elsk meg i morgen (1999).Brødre i blodet ("Blood brothers") was turned into a successful movie, entitled Elling, which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001. The English translation of the novel is called Beyond the Great Indoors. Born in Tønsberg and raised in Larvik, his debut novel was a semi-autobiography called 23-salen ("The 23rd Row"), in which he criticized Norway's efforts to take care of psychically challenged individuals. In all his novels he has spoken for the outsiders' cause, as he did in his break-through novel Hvite Niggere ("White Niggers") in 1986. The novel is about a young man who leads a life somewhat on the edges of normal society. He is also known for the youth book series "Pelle og Proffen" which focuses on two teenage detectives who get involved in all kinds of mysteries or crimes involving drugs, pollution and neo-Nazism among other things. He started this project after reading some of Franklin W. Dixon's books about The Hardy Boys. The books Døden på Oslo S, Giftige Løgner, and De Blå Ulvene of this series were also turned into successful movies. In 2005 the book Drapene i Barkvik ("The murders in Barkvik") appeared, about the teenager Fillip Moberg attempting to solve an axe murder in a small Norwegian village. In 2010 Ambjørnsen stopped writing novels; Farvel til romanen. 24 timer i grenseland, published in 2014, is about that decision and about how he came to write his novels.Ambjørnsen has received many prizes for his writing. Among them are the Norwegian Booksellers Association's prize for the best book of the 1980s for children and young adults (Pelle and Proffen books), the Tabu prize in 2001, the Telenor Culture Award in 2002, and the Brage Prize in 1995.His three Samson and Roberto books have become particularly popular in Russia, in part due to the illustrations by Nikolay Vorontsov, which also contribute carefully orchestrated local Russian-related colloquialisms to the stories. Until 2014, Ambjørnsen frequently reviewed books for the Norwegian newspaper VG. Since 1985 he has lived in Hamburg with his German wife and translator, Gabriele Haefs. In 2009 he was made an honorary citizen of Larvik. more…

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