Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international
best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door.
An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who spends
his days enforcing block association rules that only he cares about, and
visiting his wife’s grave, Ove has given up on life. Enter a boisterous
young family next door who accidentally flattens Ove’s mailbox while
moving in and earning his special brand of ire. Yet from this
inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship forms and we come to
understand Ove’s past happiness and heartbreaks. What emerges is a
heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and the gentle
reminder that life is sweeter when it’s shared.
One
of Sweden’s biggest locally-produced box office hits ever, director
Hannes Holm finds the beating heart of his source material and Swedish
star Rolf Lassgård, whose performance won him the Best Actor award at
the 2016 Seattle Int’l Film Festival, affectingly embodies the lovable
curmudgeon Ove.