Terkel in Trouble
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| Directed by | Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen Thorbjørn Christoffersen Stefan Fjeldmark |
| Produced by | Trine Heidegaard Thomas Heinesen |
| Screenplay by | Mette Heeno |
| Story by | Karsten Kiilerich Stefan Fjeldmark |
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Anders Matthesen Kim Mattheson |
| Music by | Bo Rasmussen |
| Edited by | Per Risager Mikael R. Ryelund Martin Wichmann Andersen |
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| Distributed by | Nordisk Film |
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77 minutes |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | Danish |
Terkel in Trouble (Danish: Terkel i knibe; a.k.a. The Trouble with Terkel) is a 2004 Danish adult animated film. In the original language (Danish) all the voices are done by stand-up comedian Anders Matthesen, who also wrote the original story – released on a CD. In the Norwegian version, all voices were performed by actor Aksel Hennie. For the English version multiple actors are used such as Bill Bailey and Toby Stephens.
Terkel is a normal boy who's in 6th grade at a secondary school together with his best friend Jason, who carries an iron pipe with him at all times even though he keeps on dropping it and curses about it. Terkel and Jason are playing a Game Boy in the schoolyard of Chestnutlane one day when a strange man in a green panda sweater approaches them. The man, Justin (Danish: Gunnar Bjerre), tells Terkel that he has sat on a spider. "Nothing to worry about. They're just jeans. They can be washed." Terkel says.
Terkel's teacher gets fatally run over (much to the rejoice of the class), and the class's new teacher is the strange Justin. Terkel's parents Sheila and Leon get married and the two "bad boys" in his class, Sten and Saki, manipulate Terkel to steal beer for them at the party. When Terkel's short-tempered, alcoholic and violent uncle Stuart Stardust notices, he beats up Stan (Danish: Steen) (which also means "stone" in Norse) and Saki, for which they blame Terkel, so they begin bullying him, but no-one seems to want to help him.
One day the overweight girl in the class, Doris (Danish: Fede Dorit ("Fede" means "Fat"), approaches Terkel with a love letter. When Sten and Saki notice, they start teasing the two of them, calling them a couple. Terkel is torn: he wants to defend Doris, but instead, because he'd rather save face in front of the cool kids, he says "I'm certainly not in love with a fat cow like that!" Doris gets so upset that she jumps out the window from the fourth floor and dies (as the school principal says: "let's hope the fat cow didn't land on anybody"). After that Terkel starts receiving death threats: on his desk, painted on the ceiling of his room, on a stone which breaks his window, in his notebook... His parents aren't of any help – his chainsmoking mother tells him about all the diseases he might develop in strange ways (like getting SARS from wet wood) and his father only seems capable of one word: "No".
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