Patrik, Age 1.5

Patrik, Age 1.5

2008R102 minSubtitledLanguage: SV

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

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