SummaryA Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is a 15-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent.
Directed By:Ella Lemhagen
Written By:Michael Druker, Ella Lemhagen
Patrik Age 1.5
Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
56% Positive
5 Reviews
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44% Mixed
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90
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
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.
User score
Generally Favorable
62% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
31% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Sep 16, 2015
8
Patrik 1.5 is the same as kicking on prejudice and discrimination, the film becomes a sensational message, it's beautiful. .
Nov 30, 2016
6
Drama. An adoption mix-up leaves a gay couple expecting a baby and getting a teenager. Endearing, and made me smile in places, though it doesn't try to be funny and is all the more human for that. Swedish with subtitles.
63
The cute little domestic comedy gains a slightly rough edge - maybe Sven isn't meant to be a father or a husband.
63
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.
60
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
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.
40
How Göran and his new charge bond (party boy Sven quickly splits) is the stuff of time-tested trite melodrama.
Production Company:
- Film i Väst
- Sonet Film
- Sveriges Television (SVT)
- Filmlance International AB
Release Date:Aug 6, 2010
Duration:1 h 43 m
Rating:R
Tagline:No family could be happier!
Awards
Guldbagge Awards
• 3 Nominations
Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Verzaubert - International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
