Swedish teen crashes Norwegian football romance like a Volvo in a fjord.
Lucas, a teenage boy, moves to a small town in Norway from Stockholm, Sweden. He falls for Susanne, who is on the girl's football team and is dating the captain of the boy's football team. To get Susanne to like him he joins the boy's team so that he can travel to Oslo to participate in the Norway Cup, a large football tournament.
Acting
Kåre Hedebrant's painfully authentic deer-in-headlights energy.
Production
Genuine Norway Cup location shooting — real tournament chaos.
Director
Kristoffer Metcalfe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kåre Hedebrant was already famous from 'Let the Right One In' (2008), making this his deliberate 'normal teen' palate cleanser.
The Sweden-Norway rivalry is played for laughs but historically loaded — Lucas's outsider status carries real Nordic tension beneath the comedy.
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