Patrik Age 1.5

Name: Patrik Age 1.5
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: August 6, 2010
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 65

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Regent Releasing | Release Date: August 6, 2010 | R

Summary: A Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is a 15-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent.

Director: Ella Lemhagen

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Sweet, generous and tonally sure, Patrik, Age 1.5 has a nostalgic feel, and not just because of a soundtrack skewed toward last-millennium tunes and a hyperreal suburban setting lifted straight from "Pleasantville." Read full review

Kevin Thomas

This most observant and involving film has three strengths: It shows that a strongly family-oriented, middle-class suburbia is initially hardly idyllic for gays; the arrival of Patrik reveals fissures in Sven and Goran's relationship; and that Lemhagen, who plays against predictability at every turn, maintains suspense right up to the final minutes as to how everything may turn out for the three. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Yet Patrik, Age 1.5 does go further than "The Kids Are All Right" in its willingness to test the limits of mainstream tolerance for emerging family forms. Read full review

Joe Williams

This homey construct is warm, exactingly crafted and painted with pop-country tones, but it's lacking a deep foundation where the issues that it raises can resonate. For a movie like that, we may have to depend on the Danes. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Tim Cogshell

Along the way Göran and Sven suffer the standard indignities of a Gay couple in an idyllic Swedish neighborhood. Which, as it turns out, are all the same indignities a Gay couple suffers living in an idyllic American neighborhood. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

One is never bored, thanks to the innate charms of Skarsgård and young Ljungman. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

How Göran and his new charge bond (party boy Sven quickly splits) is the stuff of time-tested trite melodrama. Read full review

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Iky009

Sep 16, 2015

Patrik 1.5 is the same as kicking on prejudice and discrimination, the film becomes a sensational message, it's beautiful. .

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lasttimeisaw

Sep 1, 2012

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shiftworker

Nov 30, 2016

Drama. An adoption mix-up leaves a gay couple expecting a baby and getting a teenager. Endearing, and made me smile in places, though it doesn't try to be funny and is all the more human for that. Swedish with subtitles.

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