Norway's highest grossing film is a winning "Odd Couple" buddy comedy with an interesting twist: Felix and Oscar's Norse counterparts are both outpatients from a state-run mental health facility. Deeply neurotic, 40-year-old fussbudget Elling (Per Christian Ellefsen), who has never learned to deal with the frightening realities of the outside world, is sent to the home after his mother's death. Elling's roommate at the facility is Kjell Bjarne (Sven Nordin), a lumbering, gentle giant of a man with two things on his mind: food and sex, despite the fact that he's still a virgin at the age of 40. After two years of peaceful cohabitation, during which Elling regales Kjel...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
89 mins