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Director: Bille August
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From Time Out Film Guide
August's second feature proper is a genial yarn about a freckled boy - Buster Oregon Mortensen, as he likes to announce himself - ambling through the days with his head in the clouds. This means trouble with teachers and the neighbourhood bully, but a generally fanciful outlook, as Buster plies his summer trade as the village delivery boy, with his penchant for magical tricks and surprises. The film, which began as a children's TV series, keeps the right side of cute, and the comedy picks up after a lumbering start. 'Life is really something' is the moral.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Bille August
Producer: Mads Egmont Christensen, Nina Crone
Cast: Mads Bugge Andersen, Katerina Stenbeck, Peter Schrøder, Katja Miehe-Renard, Signe Dahl Madsen, Kirsten Rolffes, Martin Krakaver, John Riedl, Berthe Qvistgaard full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 91 mins
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