Hawaii, Oslo
(DVD)

Title from container.

Special features include: This month's short film: Harold the amazing contortionist pig /dir. Carl Prechezer.

Originally released as motion picture in 2004.

Story, Erik Poppe, Harald Rosenl?w ; screenplay, Harald Rosenl?w ; music, John Erik Kaada, Bugge Wesseltoft ; director of photography, Ulf Branta?s ; editor, Einar Egeland.

Trond Espen Seim, Jan Gunnar R?ise, Evy Kasseth R?sten.

Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla have their first child, but learn he will not live long without an expensive operation they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient, who hopes to keep a 10-year-old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leon's brother, Trygve, gets a weekend leave from prison to be with Leon on his birthday, but plans on using the furlough to escape. Overseeing Leon and protecting him is his guardian angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone--except himself.

"Not rated. This film portrays adult situations and language"

Not rated by the MPAA.

DVD; enhanced for widescreen TV (16x9); Dolby surround; region 1.

Soundtrack in Norwegian with subtitles in English. Closed-captioned.