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Swedish DVD cover
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| Directed by | Hans Petter Moland |
| Produced by |
Petter J. Borgli Tom Remlov |
| Written by |
Kristin Amundsen Lars Bill Lundholm |
| Starring |
Stellan Skarsgård Lena Headey Charlotte Rampling |
| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
| Cinematography | Philip Øgaard |
| Edited by | Sophie Hesselberg |
| Distributed by |
Svensk Filmindustri (SF) AB (Sweden) First Run Features (USA) |
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Running time
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Norway: 113 minutes USA: 106 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Norway Sweden |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6,500,000 |
Aberdeen is a 2000 Norwegian-British drama film directed by Hans Petter Moland, starring Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey and Charlotte Rampling.
Lena Headey stars as Kaisa, a young lawyer, just promoted, who has no apparent emotional attachments, prefers nameless encounters with men, and is surprised to receive a call from her dying mother (Charlotte Rampling) with a final request to bring her estranged father (Stellan Skarsgård) to the hospital. The film is a bit of a road movie with encounters along the way, some confrontational, such as boozing louts who harass her father or angry stewardesses issuing ultimatums, while some are romantic, such as a truck driver (Ian Hart) Kaisa attempts to use, but instead finds herself attached to. What started as an unavoidable chore, perhaps the last she'd never be able to dodge, becomes a new starting point in her life.