On Our Own
5.6
1998
1 hr 15 min
Drama
, Comedy
Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.
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- Cast：
- Ann Eleonora Jørgensen , Lars Kaalund , Birthe Neumann , Bjarne Henriksen , Kristian Holm Joensen , Mikkel Aas Mortensen , Michael Moritzen
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Just perfect...
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A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
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Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
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