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Show Me Love

Original title: Fucking Åmål
  • 19981998
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
52K
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Alexandra Dahlström and Rebecka Liljeberg in Fucking Åmål (1998)
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
52K
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  • Director
    • Lukas Moodysson
  • Writer
    • Lukas Moodysson
  • Stars
    • Alexandra Dahlström
    • Rebecka Liljeberg
    • Erica Carlson
Top credits
  • Director
    • Lukas Moodysson
  • Writer
    • Lukas Moodysson
  • Stars
    • Alexandra Dahlström
    • Rebecka Liljeberg
    • Erica Carlson
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    • 333User reviews
    • 60Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 19 wins & 8 nominations

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    Alexandra Dahlström
    Alexandra Dahlström
    • Elin Olssonas Elin Olsson
    Rebecka Liljeberg
    Rebecka Liljeberg
    • Agnes Ahlbergas Agnes Ahlberg
    Erica Carlson
    • Jessica Olssonas Jessica Olsson
    Mathias Rust
    • Johan Hulthas Johan Hulth
    Stefan Hörberg
    • Markusas Markus
    Josefine Nyberg
    • Viktoriaas Viktoria
    • (as Josefin Nyberg)
    Ralph Carlsson
    Ralph Carlsson
    • Agnes' Father Olofas Agnes' Father Olof
    Maria Hedborg
    • Agnes' Mother Karinas Agnes' Mother Karin
    Axel Widegren
    • Agnes' Little Brother Oskaras Agnes' Little Brother Oskar
    Jill Ung
    • Elin's Mother Birgittaas Elin's Mother Birgitta
    Lisa Skagerstam
    • Camillaas Camilla
    Lina Svantesson
    • Malinas Malin
    Johanna Larsson
    • Saraas Sara
    Elinor Johansson
    • Jennyas Jenny
    Jessica Melkersson
    • Sabinaas Sabina
    Bo Lyckman
    Bo Lyckman
    • Man in Caras Man in Car
    Daniel Teider
    • Johan's Little Brotheras Johan's Little Brother
    Nils Björkman
    • Bengtssonas Bengtsson
    • Director
      • Lukas Moodysson
    • Writer
      • Lukas Moodysson
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    Storyline

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    Åmål is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes. —Mattias Thuresson
    • lesbian
    • small town
    • school
    • birthday party
    • lesbian teen
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    • Taglines
      • Jag ska aldrig mer bli ihop med nån. Jag ska bli celibat.
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Drama
      • Romance
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Although set in the Swedish town Åmål, not a single scene was actually shot there. All exteriors were filmed in Trollhättan, almost 100 miles away.
    • Goofs
      When Agnes' disabled friend comes to the birthday party, a door bell is heard. However, when Agnes father answers the door the friend is at the bottom of the stairs in her wheelchair and is clearly unable to get to the bell beside the front door.

      It was probably her driver who did press the door bell and left before he/she was seen.
    • Quotes

      Elin: You know what my nightmare is? That I'll stay in Åmål. That I'll never move from here. I'll get kids, a car, a house... all of that. Then my husband will leave for someone younger and I'll be stuck with kids that just scream and nag. It's so fucking meaningless.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of the credits, there is a picture of two hearts with "COCO" between them. Coco is the name of director Lukas Moodysson's wife.
    • Connections
      Featured in Bag om filmen 'Fucking Åmål' (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      I Want to Know What Love Is
      Composed by Mick Jones

      Performed by Foreigner

      Med tillstånd av Warner / Chappell Scand. AB / Warner Music Sweden

    User reviews333

    Review
    Top review
    Teaches you how to love again
    For me, when watching this movie, one has to keep in mind any other teen-love movies you might have seen. Heck, ALL teen movies are fair game. Then, when watching this movie, notice how those other movies begin to crumble under their own stupidity, and jump off large cliffs like celluloid lemmings. Now THAT'S great filmmaking. Great films go straight for the jugular of other films; thinning out the herd.

    Fucking Åmål takes adolescence, and instead of portraying how wonderfully blissful it all was, it shows how it was a time in everyone's life for over-dramatizing and acting mostly petty. But then, out of these ashes rises something that was great about those awkward years: love. Because you didn't stop being dramatic when it came to love, but you celebrated it. Like the characters in this movie, everyone who fell in love in high school spent time brooding over class pictures, or waited by the phone for that one call. Moodysson uses the scenes at the school and the parties to allow viewers to reflect on how awkward and cruel being in high school was. But instead of carrying this effect into the lovely land of high school crushes, he instead raises them up on a pedastal. It made me wonder if i can't love like that again: with no hesitation, no complications, and with all my heart.

    What makes this film great though (and not just good) is by bringing the issue of homosexuality into it, but he slowly begins to make the issue hazy and unclear so that it no longer becomes an issue except for the less developed, and unliked, characters in the film. By the end of the movie, it doesn't matter that Agnes and Elin are to GIRLS in love, but that they are two girls in LOVE. In an age where media has transformed homosexuality into more about sexuality and less about love, Moodysson flips the scales. By the end of the movie, you start to realize that Agnes isn't a lesbian, because that title is worthless. She's just a person who loves. She celebrates what she finds beautiful (Elin). Of course, Elin is the main character of the film because she is the one who changes and matures. She elevates herself out of the social stratosphere of high school lunches, and into a world without personal boundries.

    Last, one has to admire the fact that Moodysson doesn't take the film over the edge, and make it too much about how girls need to look for love just amongst themselves because all teenage boys are immature. First, he portrays most all of the other kids (regardless of sex) as immature except for Agnes and Elin, not just boys in particular. Then, he allows the viewer to sympathize with Johan. Johan maybe confused and unsure of himself, but he was just as much in love with Elin as Agnes was. How easy it might have been to make him mean, stupid, and worthless, so that viewers would be happy to see Elin flee him and go to Agnes. But he's not, he's kind-hearted and genuinely seems to care about Elin. Once again, this is Moodysson using love to blind the issue of heterosexualty and homosexuality and concentrate on love itself.

    Definitely a movie for the romantic, and one that will teach you how to correctly fall in love again.
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    • Jul 8, 2001

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 23, 1998 (Sweden)
    • Countries of origin
      • Sweden
      • Denmark
    • Language
      • Swedish
    • Also known as
      • 同窗的愛
    • Filming locations
      • Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Memfis Film
      • Det Danske Filminstitut
      • Film i Väst
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • SEK 9,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $169,331
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $17,110
      • Oct 17, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $219,331
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 29 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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