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7.4/10
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Faced with a looming death, an aging prankster makes the most of his remaining life.Faced with a looming death, an aging prankster makes the most of his remaining life.Faced with a looming death, an aging prankster makes the most of his remaining life.
- Awards
- 9 wins & 6 nominations
Storyline
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- Quotes
[first lines]
Frantisek Hána: [upon visiting a mansion] Very shabby.
- Crazy creditsA matter of seconds after the credits start, a new scene is shown as the credits roll over them. The theme of the movie is restated with powerful imagery. (As viewed with the DVD distributed in North America.)
- ConnectionsFeatured in Usmevy: Usmevy Vlastimila Brodského (2002)
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Realistic and touching picture of old age
To qualify my use of "realistic" in the summary, not many old folks I know go around pretending to be famous maestros, blind people, etc. -- nor have I ever been elderly. Those minor issues out of the way, the relationships between the characters in this film and the emotions expressed therein were completely realistic and genuine. In fact, though we're not yet 30, I could see many characteristics of my relationship with my wife in the interactions between the main character and his wife. For those that don't die young (there's a great line in the movie about this, when the two best friends are talking about dying young, and one of them says--and I'm paraphrasing, we missed our chance--we'll just have to stick it out), we'll all be where these characters are some day. I know many movie-goers would prefer to be swept *away* from reality as opposed to being *faced* with it, but even they might enjoy the sweet reminder of our mortality--and the importance of living life to the fullest--that this film is.
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- Argos-3
- Jan 19, 2004
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $96,269
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,046
- Aug 24, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $333,117
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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