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Director
Ella Lemhagen
Cast
Gustaf Skarsgård,
Torkel Petersson,
Tom Ljungman,
Amanda Davin,
Annika Hallin,
Jacob Ericksson
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a one-and-a-half-year-old Swedish orphan, Patrik. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.
The New York Times by 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."
Los Angeles Times by 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.
NPR by 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.
Boston Globe by Wesley Morris
The cute little domestic comedy gains a slightly rough edge - maybe Sven isn't meant to be a father or a husband.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by 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.
Village Voice
One is never bored, thanks to the innate charms of Skarsgård and young Ljungman.
Boxoffice Magazine by 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.
Village Voice by Chuck Wilson
One is never bored, thanks to the innate charms of Skarsgård and young Ljungman.
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Patrik Age 1.5 has a single drawback that can't be overlooked, at least from the standpoint of an American viewer. It's predictable.
Time Out
How Göran and his new charge bond (party boy Sven quickly splits) is the stuff of time-tested trite melodrama.
Time Out by Andrew Schenker
How Göran and his new charge bond (party boy Sven quickly splits) is the stuff of time-tested trite melodrama.
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