Underdog

Underdog
  • Release date: 13 Mar 2015
  • Release year: 2014
  • Runtime: 97 minutes
  • Country: Sweden, Norway
  • Keywords: one word title, written by director, 23 year old, man in a shower, male in a shower, taking a shower, bare chested male, hairy chest, shared shower, tattoo
Plot:
23-year-old "Dino" (Bianca Kronlof) dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau-riche Oslo. But her new life is caught in deadlock - Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive loop of temporary jobs, financial trouble and hard partying. A broken arm incidentally leads to a position as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home. Dino is thrown into a reality very far from her own. During a few sultry summer weeks she ends up the centre of an odd love triangle, an unpredictable struggle for affection as well as dominance. "Underdog" is a tender and raw story of privilege and longing, yet at the same time a humorous and unmerciful observation of the shifted power balance between Sweden and Norway - an actuality where Swedes have become the Norwegians' servants.
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