Insomnia Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Gisken Armand, Maria Bonnevie, Bjørn Floberg
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- VHS Release Date: 06/06/2000
- Original Release: 1997
- Rating:
FOR PARENTS
- Common Sense Rates this for Ages: More
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Editorial Reviews
Norwegian filmmaker Erik Skjoldbjaerg makes his directorial debut with the psychological police drama Insomnia. Swedish homicide detective Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård) and his partner, Erik Vik (Sverre Anker Ousdal), arrive in a small Northern Norwegian town to help the local police investigate the murder of a teenage girl. When Jonas finds the girl's backpack, he sets a trap for the killer near a remote shed. While waiting to make an ambush in the morning fog, Jonas accidentally shoots Erik. He knows it was only an accident, but he decides to keep it a secret because he could lose his job. Jonas chooses to carry on with his investigation while trying to cover up the evidence of Erik's death. Meanwhile, he's unable to get any sleep due to the constant sunlight of the Norwegian summer and his increasingly guilty conscience. His only help comes from highly intuitive local police officer Hilda Haugen (Gisken Armand), who begins to form her own doubts about Jonas. As he continues to lose his grip on the case at hand, he becomes dangerously close to the suspects, Jon Holt (Bjørn Floberg) and Frøya (Marianne O. Ulrichsen). Filmmaker Christopher Nolan directed the English-language remake of Insomnia in 2002 with Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank. Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
Why We Rated This Appropriate for Ages 17 and UP
What to watch out for
- Drugs:
Characters drink a lot.
- Language:
Very strong language ("f--k" and "s--t").
- Violence:
Grisly dead body, characters killed, shooting, tension, peril.
- Sex:
Naked dead body.
- Messages
- Consumerism:
Not an issue.
What Parents Need to Know
About Insomnia
Parents need to know that this movie has brief but grisly violence, a nude corpse, some creepy sound effects, and some very strong language. There are tense scenes and characters are shot and killed. Characters drink and smoke.
Families Can Talk About
Families can talk about the moral compromises Dormer makes and the ways in which people have to balance the ends and the means. What will Ellie do next? Why? Why is the town named "Nightmute?" What do you think about the girl who was killed?
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