A Man Called Ove

Here's a film that thinks it knows how to thaw a grumpy old man. Ove is a widower maintaining a tight grip on his neighborhood. But his routine is disrupted when a young family moves in next door and their matriarch runs over his mailbox. It's manipulative, but it works.

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Hannes Holm directed A Man Called Ove in 2015. See Hannes Holm's full filmography, where to start with Hannes Holm, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hannes Holm.

A Man Called Ove was released in 2015 (SV original-language production), with a runtime of 116 minutes.