Aberdeen (2000 film)

Aberdeen is a 2000 Norwegian-British drama film directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey and Charlotte Rampling.

Synopsis

Lawyer Kaisa Heller, just promoted, has no apparent emotional attachments, preferring nameless encounters with men. She is surprised to receive a call from Helen, her dying mother, with a final request to bring Kaisa's estranged father Tomas to see her at 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 truck driver Clive whom Kaisa attempts to use, but instead finds herself attached to. What started as an unavoidable chore, perhaps the last she will have never been able to dodge, becomes a new starting point in her life.

Cast

Stellan Skarsgård - Tomas Heller

Jean Anderson - Young Kaisa

Lena Headey - Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller

Charlotte Rampling - Helen

Ian Hart - Clive

Louise Goodall - Sara

Jason Hetherington - Perkins

Kate Lynn Evans - Emily

John Killoran - Blake

Fergis McLarnon - Eric

Anders T. Andersen - Customs Official

Nina Andresen Borud - Flight Attendant

Henriette Steenstrup - Car Rental Clerk

Kari Simonsen - Waitress

J.J. Mckeown - Boy at door

Jan Grønli - Granbakken

Gard Eidsvold - Disagreeable Man

References

External links

2000s British films

2000s Swedish films

2000 films

2000 drama films

2000s English-language films

English-language Norwegian films

English-language Swedish films

Films directed by Hans Petter Moland

Films shot in Sweden

Swedish drama films

British drama films

2000s legal films

Films shot in Norway

Films shot in Scotland

Films about lawyers

Films about dysfunctional families

Films scored by Zbigniew Preisner

Norwegian drama films