Shit Happens

Feb 18, 2000

1h 54m

★ 3.3

Overview

A young couple, Sophia and Freddie has just got their first baby, but this little thing makes their lives way to complicated and difficult for them to handle. They both have jobs, Sophia is an actress and Freddie a balloon-flier, which makes it tough to be home with the baby and such. They also have to deal with Sophia´s family, which includes a depressed dad, a close to senile mother, and two eccentric sisters. The family life is nothing what Sophia and Freddie expected.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Fladen Film

Svenska Filminstitutet

Canal+

SVT

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Cast

Sophia

Josefin Nilsson

Gina

Marie Richardson

Tina

Cecilia Frode

Freddie

Jacob Ericksson

Solveig Olsson

Bibi Andersson

Tage Olsson

Gösta Ekman

Roffe

Peter Dalle

Pulver

Peter Wahlbeck

Christoffer

Jan Mybrand

Director

Lennart Jähkel

Therapist

Christian Zell

Midwife

Alexandra Zetterberg

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