Synopsis
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
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Cast
- Robert GustafssonAllan Karlsson
- Iwar WiklanderJulius
- David WibergBenny
- Mia SkäringerGunilla
- Jens HulténGunnar "Gäddan" Gärdin
- Sven LönnHans "Hinken" Claesson
- Bianca CruzeiroCaracas
- Alan FordPim
- Simon SäppenenBulten
- Kerry ShaleHarry S Truman
Recommendations
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The New York Times
The film genre that might be called Old People Behaving Hilariously gets an appealing new entry with The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, a sometimes daffy, often droll Swedish movie. - 70
Wall Street Journal
Consistently daffy, consistently amusing. - 70
Los Angeles Times
There is a great deal of silliness about Allan's journey from start to finish and no real message other than to never stop taking life as it comes. But there is also a great deal of fun in watching a 100-year-old man climb out a window and disappear. - 67
The A.V. Club
The 100-Year-Old Man surely won’t conquer the U.S. box office, but it’s a nice change of pace to see a foreign film that isn’t deadly serious. We could use more subtitled belly laughs. - 63
RogerEbert.com
This movie, as it happens, is a comedy, but it’s a frequently grisly one, and one that makes rollicking fun of a lot of dark Swedish preoccupations. - 60
The Dissolve
100-Year-Old sometimes feels like a rote biopic of a famous figure who never was, congratulating viewers on whatever recognition has rolled over from grade-school history class, then moving on to what comes next. - 60
Arizona Republic
Despite the heavy themes, "100-Year-Old Man" keeps the tone light. It is a comedy, after all. The laugh-o-meter needle hovers fairly consistently on "amused grin." - 60
Variety
The script never quite succeeds in making us care about Allan as a character (despite dubbing its quavering narration into English for the ease of American auds), but it finds an interesting balance for a personality who leaves a trail of disaster in his wake.
