Patrik, Age 1.5
Newly approved for adoption, Göran and Sven have settled into a picture-perfect Swedish suburb and are excitedly preparing for the arrival of their eighteen-month-old son, Patrik. But a misplaced decimal point in the paperwork delivers a very different child to their door: Patrik is fifteen, openly homophobic, and carries a juvenile record. Stuck with each other until the mix-up can be resolved, the reluctant new family must navigate suspicious neighbors, a strained marriage, and their own assumptions about what a father and son are supposed to look like. Ella Lemhagen's warm, wry comedy-drama, Sweden's entry for the Academy Awards, stars Gustaf Skarsgård and Torkel Petersson as two men discovering that families are made, not matched.
🏆 Recognition
Festival selections
- Toronto International Film Festival (2008)
- Frameline San Francisco — Centerpiece (2009)
- Inside Out Toronto — Opening Night (2009)
- Directed by
- Ella Lemhagen
- Written by
- Ella Lemhagen
- Produced by
- Tomas Michaelsson
- Starring
- Gustaf Skarsgard, Torkel Petersson, Thomas Ljungman, Annika Hallin, Amanda Davin
- Country
- SE
