Synopsis
Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. 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.
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Cast
- Gustaf SkarsgårdGöran Skoogh
- Torkel PeterssonSven Skoogh
- Tom LjungmanPatrik
- Amanda DavinIsabell
- Annika HallinEva
- Jacob ErickssonLennart Ljung
- Anette SevreusLouise Ljung
- Mats BlomgrenJan Åström
- Malin CederbladMonika Åström
- Antti ReiniTommy Karlsson
Recommendations
- 90
The New York Times
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." - 80
Los Angeles Times
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. - 75
NPR
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. - 63
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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. - 63
Boston Globe
The cute little domestic comedy gains a slightly rough edge - maybe Sven isn't meant to be a father or a husband. - 60
Village Voice
One is never bored, thanks to the innate charms of Skarsgård and young Ljungman. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
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. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
