Summary: A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fried 1999

Summary: After a two year stint in a state home, the shy and neurotic Elling and his sex-obsessed best friend, Kjell, are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves in a state funded apartment in the center of Oslo, told to behave responsibly and act like normal members of society. In time, the two adjust and find oddball ways of coping with society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELL