Aberdeen Movie Review 2000

Ambitious London attorney Kaisa (Headey) gets a call from her terminally ill mother Helen (Rampling), who lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. Helen wants Kaisa to travel to Oslo and retrieve Tomas (Skargard), her alcoholic and estranged father, so Helen and he can have a deathbed reconciliation. Assertive Kaisa tracks the drunk down and makes him come with her on a nightmare trip back. Lead performances are utterly unsentimental.

Distribution

First Run Features, The Film Center Building, 630 Ninth Ave., Ste. 1213, New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212)243-0600, Toll-free: 800-229-8575, Fax: (212)989-7649, Email: info@firstrunfeatures.com, URL: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 103 minutes.
Originally from Norwegian, British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Bad Dads, On the Rocks, Scotland, Road Trip, Family Reunions

Screenplay

Hans Petter Moland, Kristin Amundsen

Cast

Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey, Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling

Cinematography

Philip Ogaard

Director

Hans Petter Moland

Music

Zbigniew Preisner