Stikkfrí (1997)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Ari Kristinsson

Writer:

Ari Kristinsson (writer)

Release Date:

26 December 1997 (Iceland)

Genre:

Family | Comedy

Tagline:

Barnsrán er enginn barnaleikur (Kidnapping a child is not child-play)

Plot:

A little girl "kidnaps" her half-sister in order to get the attention of her father who left her mother years ago for another woman (who gave birth to her half-sister).

Plot Keywords:

Kidnapping | Baby | Kids And Family

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Bergþóra Aradóttir	...	Sofie
Freydís Kristófersdóttir	...	Yrsa
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Örn Árnason
Halldóra Björnsdóttir
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir	...	Magga
Bryndís Gunnlaugsdottír
Hlynur Helgi Hallgrímsson
Egill Ólafsson	...	Jói
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson

Also Known As:

Count Me Out (USA)
...und raus bist Du (Germany) [de]
Ikke niet (Netherlands) (festival title) [nl]
Isä kiikkiin (Finland) [fi]
Mi me ypologizeis (Greece) [el]
Mon père est de retour (France) (TV title) [fr]
Pass för mig (Sweden) [sv]
Sofies siste stikk (Norway) (dubbed version) [no]

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

Iceland

Language:

Icelandic

Certification:

Iceland:L | Taiwan:GP | Germany:o.Al. | Singapore:PG | Sweden:Btl

Company:

Icelandic Film

Seriousness with a smile

Simply a good movie. Story: a 10 year-old girl (Bergthora Aradottir as 'Sofie') realises that her father is not abroad, as her mother has always told her, but simply has left her mother and lives with another woman. She decides to look him up and confront him, with the help from her best friend (Freydis Kristofersdottir as 'Yrsa'). This leads to complications such as the kidnapping of Sofie's half-sister. This movie is exciting, the story doesn't leave you bungling somewhere. Every time you think, where do we go from here?, the director takes you along some path which seems logical but not predictable. The two main characters play their parts exceedingly well, with Aradottir as the doubting and sensitive one yearning for recognition and Kristofersdottir as the more streetwise(-ish) tomboy. Real emotions are displayed and the drama is never too thick. It's quite amazing how well these children act. There's more balance between Aradottir and Kristofersdottir than for example in a comparable film like "Selma and Johanna" (Sweden, 1997), where it is sort of lacking. The movie is quite realistic, it is only unrealistic in the fact that it IS a movie, for children at that. Only at the end one gets the feeling that they ran out money or time.