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25/12/2015 Comedy, Drama 1h 56m
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Misery hates company.

Overview

Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

  1. Hannes Holm

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Rolf Lassgård

    Ove

  2. Bahar Pars

    Parvaneh

  3. Filip Berg

    Young Ove

  4. Ida Engvoll

    Sonja

  5. Tobias Almborg

    Patrick

  6. Klas Wiljergård

    Jimmy

  7. Chatarina Larsson

    Anita

  8. Börje Lundberg

    Rune

  9. Stefan Gödicke

    Ove's dad

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-07-31
Rolf Lassgård looks like he is enjoying his role here as the curmudgeonly old "Ove". Widowed and now, compulsorily, retired he lives in his small community where he enforces the local by-laws enthusiastically whilst generally upsetting all his neighbours with his entertainingly caustic remarks. Lonely and increasingly frustrated, he alights on suicide - but one way or another it would seem that the Almighty isn't ready for him yet, either! Using some flashbacks of his younger life with wife "Sonja" (Ida Engvoll) we intersperse the timelines as the joy and optimism of that period of his life (...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Swedish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$30,692,889.00

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