The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
2013 · Movie · PG · 115 min · ★ 6.8 · 63% critics
A restless centenarian slips out of a nursing home on his birthday and sets off on a spur-of-the-moment trip across Sweden. As strangers, criminals, and chance encounters pile up, the story bounces between his present-day misadventure and the unlikely, globe-spanning episodes that shaped his long life.
Based on The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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Details
- Original title
- Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-12-25
- Language
- Swedish
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 63/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (1,016 votes)
- Box office
- $51,000,000
About
If you enjoy oddball, coincidence-filled adventures with a Forrest Gump-style sweep and some black comedy, this could click; Not for you if you want tight realism, consistent laughs, or dislike subtitles.
Pros: quirky road-trip fun; dark, offbeat humor; lively flashback structure | Cons: hit-or-miss jokes; uneven pacing; book fans disappointed
Themes
- escape
- cold war
- dark comedy
- old man
- nonlinear timeline
- retirement home
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Makeup and Hairstyling · 2016 · nominated
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award — Best European Film · 2014 · nominated
- 27th European Film Awards · nominated
- 29th Goya Awards · nominated
- 42nd Saturn Awards · nominated
Cast & crew
Robert Gustafsson
as Allan Karlsson
Iwar Wiklander
as Julius
David Wiberg
as Benny
Mia Skäringer
as Gunilla
Jens Hultén
as Gunnar "Gäddan" Gärdin
- SL
Sven Lönn
as Hans "Hinken" Claesson
Bianca Cruzeiro
as Caracas
Alan Ford
as Pim
- SS
Simon Säppenen
as Bulten
Kerry Shale
as Harry S Truman
Directed by Felix Herngren