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A Little Trip to Heaven

The dour humor that marked Icelandic thesp-turned-director Baltasar Kormakur's "101 Reykjaviik" and "The Sea" isn't enough to salvage -- or cohere -- his English-language "A Little Trip to Heaven." Rural noir, ostensibly set in northern Minnesota but mostly shot in Iceland, is a classic case of directorial talent lost in translation.

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The dour humor that marked Icelandic thesp-turned-director Baltasar Kormakur’s “101 Reykjaviik” and “The Sea” isn’t enough to salvage — or cohere — his English-language “A Little Trip to Heaven.” Rural noir, ostensibly set in northern Minnesota but mostly shot in Iceland, is a classic case of directorial talent lost in translation. As with many other maiden efforts abroad, this one feels like ESL Cinema, its narrative gone murky, characters undeveloped, sense of place dislocated, fuzzy overall intent ill-compensated for by quirky touches. Despite toplining presences of Forest Whitaker and Julia Stiles, this watchable misfire looks to hit Ancillary Town fast.

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Stab at a showy action opening piles up three separate car crashes in the first reel; their import isn’t clarified until later. First, a young couple driving on what looks like a perilous coastline gets ejected from their car as it careens off a cliff. Swimming to shore, the girl grabs a nearby steel pipe and smashes the boy’s legs with relish, as if to make sure he knows this is the end of their relationship.

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Next, an urban transit bus is crowded with passengers after a collision — but how many of them boarded after the incident, hoping to cash in on the victims’ monetary settlement? That’s a question posed by Holt (Whitaker), who scares the posers away by telling them a hidden videocamera will expose them to police. Many leave — not realizing this is a bluff, and that Holt isn’t a cop but an insurance investigator trying to minimize company payout.

Finally, a longhaired, late night traveler has his gas tank drained while he’s taking a break from a blizzard in a tavern. When his car stalls shortly thereafter, the culprit picks him up and promptly slams them both into a tunnel wall. By the time cops show up, there’s just one passenger in the vehicle — and he’s charred beyond recognition.

Holt goes to the hinterlands to investigate. Identification found on the corpse suggests he’s the well-known scam artist brother of local resident Isold (Stiles), who lives in squalor with young son Thor (Alfred Harmsworth) and husband Fred (Jeremy Renner). All three act like they’ve got a whole lot of secrets to hide.

“Little Trip” recalls the many offbeat, low-key ’70s U.S. suspensers that valued milieu and character over genre thrills (Arthur Penn’s “Night Moves” being a classic example). But the tonal echo is only that, as the pic fails to etch a convincing setting, create fleshed-out characters, or build basic tension. Humor at the expense of dumb townies (notably a horny, plus-sized female bartender) feels condescending, idiosyncratic individual sequences dangle unmoored, and dialogue frequently sounds like a foreigner’s idea of what rural Yanks would say, drawn from other movies. Even the overall plot comes across as convoluted, its ironies arriving minus emotional resonance.

While few viewers will find satisfaction in the result, this is still the kind of movie that maintains a certain interest because it makes one wonder how it will pull itself together — even if, finally, it doesn’t.

On the plus side, visual contributions make a frosty atmospheric cocktail of winter exteriors; soundtrack likewise goes for flavorful kitsch ‘n’ twang. While Stiles is working to create a naturalistic woman-in-peril, Whitaker’s shambling company sleuth doesn’t quite come into focus (and what’s with that high, quasi-Irish lilt?). Renner and Peter Coyote (as Holt’s home office supervisor) are OK in one-dimensional roles.

Tech aspects are good. Post the Toronto preem, pic is being re-cut prior to further showings.

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• Production: A Palomar Pictures and Blueeyes Prods. presentation. Produced by Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Baltasar Kormakur. Executive producers, Jon Asgeir Johannesson, Lilja Palmdottir. Co-producer, Agnes Johansen. Directed by Baltasar Kormakur. Screenplay, Kormakur, Edward Martin Weinman, from a story by Kormakur.
• Crew: Camera (color), Ottar Gudnason; editors, Virginia Katz, Richard Pearson; music, Mugison; production designer, Karl Juliusson; art direction, Eggert Ketilsson; costume designer, Helga I. Stefansdottir; sound (Dolby Digital), Kjartan Kjartansson; assistant director, Leifur Dagfinnsson; casting, Liora Reich. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentations), Sept. 12, 2005. Running time: 105 MIN.
• With: Holt - Forest Whitaker Isold - Julia Stiles Fred - Jeremy Renner Frank - Peter Coyote William - Philip Jackson Martha - Anne Reid Head Mistress - Phyllida Law Thor - Alfred Harmsworth

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Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt examines the scene of the wreck, it all seems a bit too perfect. And when he interviews Isold Mcbride and her shifty husband, Fred -- the impoverished beneficiaries of the massive, recently initiated life-insurance policy -- he begins to suspect that something is amiss.

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A Little Trip to Heaven is a 2005 Icelandic-American noir-inspired thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. It is set in 1985 United States, but almost entirely shot in Iceland. Icelandic musician Mugison composed and performed the soundtrack, except for the song "A Little Trip to Heaven", which is originally by Tom Waits. Mugison performs the Waits song on the soundtrack.

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A husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brother’s million-dollar insurance policy.

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• Release Date: 26 December 2005 (Ireland) (more)
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When a man dies in a tragic accident, an insurance investigator discovers that the only beneficiary of the deceased man's million-dollar insurance policy is the man's sister, who lives a miserable ...Read more life with her son and husband.

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• Joanna Scanlan

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When a man dies in a tragic accident, an insurance investigator discovers that the only beneficiary of the deceased man's million-dollar insurance policy is the man's sister, who ...Read more lives a miserable life with her son and husband.

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Three independent events come together in this pleasantly elusive film that tends toward both a stylised thriller and a dry comedy. Kormákur does not shirk from stripping the film noir genre of a few clichés and enriching it with details and visually pregnant sketches of a world that may well be 1980s Minnesota, but at the same time seems to deny any notion of place and time. In this mysterious universe, insurance agent Abe Holt (played securely by Forest Whitaker) is investigating the suspicious death of the driver of a burned-out car. Holt has to work out whether the dead man, a conman with a criminal record, could possibly have been the victim of an attempt to swindle the insurance company. When he meets Isolde, the dead man’s sister, whose face is disfigured by severe scars, Holt slowly begins to lose his professional distance. Against the backdrop of a hostile, endless and harsh Midwest, the characters reveal themselves to be multi-layered, involved in a curious yet balanced plot. Since its première last fall at the Toronto film festival, some 13 minutes have been cut from the original version, so this is the international première of the final version. (SdH)

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Wondering where to watch A Little Trip to Heaven online ? We have all the streaming details right here. A Little Trip to Heaven is an Icelandic-American noir thriller film revolving around a horrific car accident and an unusual insurance claim filed by the so-called victims. The film is written by Edward Martin Weinman and Baltasar Kormákur, who have also co-produced and directed the film. It is set in the United States in the year 1985 but is shot entirely in Iceland and also features music from Icelandic artist Mugison. A Little Trip to Heaven was released on 26 December 2005.

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The film opens with a grieving widow in an insurance office being informed that she won’t receive full death benefits for her husband’s death because he can be seen smoking while driving in a video. Later on, the film revolves around three vehicle crashes and their subsequent insurance claims, which seem dubious when investigated by Abe Holt.

A Little Trip to Heaven stars Forest Whitaker , Julia Stiles, Jeremy Renner, and Joanna Scanlan, among others.

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A Little Trip To Heaven was made in 2005. It was made to be a drama, and a thriller. It was directed by an Icelandic director. The setting of the movie is the United States. The setting is also in 1985. Though it was filmed in Iceland. The song in the movie named after the movie was composed by Tom Waits. The film is about three automobile crashes. All of the crashes seem suspicious. A guy is sent to investigate these crashes. Their is a lot of suspicion about these crashes. Their is a body pull from the wreckage, that the investigator is trying to figure out who it is. The four main characters in the movie are Abe Holt, Fred McBride, Isold McBride, and Frank. This movie has drama, and suspense. It is also a thriller.

A Little Trip to Heaven is a 2005 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 26 minutes. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 5.9.

• Genres Drama Thriller
• Cast MarÑa Fernández Ache Kharl Anton Leigh Peter Coyote
• Director Baltasar Kormkur
• Release Date 2005
• MPAA Rating R
• Runtime 1 hr 26 min
• Language English
• IMDB Rating 5.9   (5,069)

“A Little Trip to Heaven” sold to forty countries

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• December 19, 2005

Distribution sales of the Icelandic movie “A Little Trip to Heaven,” starring Forest Whitaker and Julia Stiles, have increased since it was selected to screen at the Sundance Movie Festival last week, reports Morgunbladid; the film has now been sold to over 40 countries.

According to Morgunbladid the distribution contracts are bigger in scope than previously seen for an Icelandic movie. A contract with Spain’s Eurocine Films entails that the film will open in 100 movie theaters and that tens of millions will be invested in promotions and marketing. The film has already been sold to all of the Nordic countries, to countries in the Middle East and to Brazil. Negotiations are underway with distributors in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere.

Morgunbladid reports that the film will be will screen in the “premieres section” of he Sundance Film Festival which according to Morgunbladid is a great honor for the director since the “premieres section” only shows films that are thought to have great promise and by directors who have already made a name for themselves.

A Little Trip to Heaven”, written and directed by Baltasar Kormakur, and co-written by, Iceland Review staff writer, Edward Weinman, opens in Iceland on December 26th.

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When a scam artist dies with a million-dollar life insurance policy, his sister and her husband try to collect... but an insurance investigator has very different plans. Insurance agent Abe Holt (Forest Whitaker) is investigating the suspicious death of the driver of a burned-out car. Holt has to work out whether the dead man, a con-man with a criminal record, could possibly have been the victim of an attempt to swindle the insurance company. When he meets Isolde (Julia Stiles), the dead man's sister, whose face is disfigured by severe scars, Holt slowly begins to lose his professional distance. Against the backdrop of a hostile, endless and harsh midwest winter, the characters reveal themselves to be multi-layered, involved in a curious yet balanced plot. In the end Holt must decide if doing the right thing is worth doing something very, very wrong.

Moody dialogue, drab lighting, and characters who aren't quite who they say they are pepper the indie film A Little Trip To Heaven . Starring Forest Whitaker as Holt (an insurance investigator looking into a man's suspicious death), and Julia Stiles as Isolde (the frightened and sketchy sister of the deceased), A Little Trip 's destination actually is closer to hell than heaven. Unevenly portrayed and not well-fleshed out, not one of the characters is sympathetic. Isolde's brute of a husband is the prime suspect, but Holt--who in a different film would be the story's hero--isn't exactly a saint either. There's a particularly creepy scene where he's little more than a peeping Tom, justifying his perversion as doing what's necessary to get his job done. As shown in films such as Half Nelson and Sherrybaby , imperfect characters can make for compelling filmmaking. The problem with A Little Trip To Heaven is that we want to root for someone--anyone--but there's just no one who's worthy of our interest. --Jae-Ha Kim

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• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
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• Director ‏ : ‎ Baltasar Kormákur
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• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 27 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2007
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Jeremy Renner, Alfred Harmsworth, Peter Coyote
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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.

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