Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
- Awards
- 19 wins & 8 nominations
Rebecka Liljeberg
- Agnes Ahlberg
- (as Rebecca Liljeberg)
Josefine Nyberg
- Viktoria
- (as Josefin Nyberg)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough set in the Swedish town Åmål, not a single scene was actually shot there. All exteriors were filmed in Trollhättan, almost 100 miles away.
- GoofsWhen Agnes' disabled friend comes to the birthday party, a door bell is heard. However, when Agnes father answers the door the friend is at the bottom of the stairs in her wheelchair and is clearly unable to get to the bell beside the front door.
It was probably her driver who did press the door bell and left before he/she was seen.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the credits, there is a picture of two hearts with "COCO" between them. Coco is the name of director Lukas Moodysson's wife.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Bag om filmen 'Fucking Åmål' (1999)
- SoundtracksI Want to Know What Love Is
Composed by Mick Jones
Performed by Foreigner
Med tillstånd av Warner / Chappell Scand. AB / Warner Music Sweden
Featured review
It's true that this is a great love/friendship story, but the setting is what makes it brilliant. It is about the frustration of feeling like you are stuck somewhere that you hate, which of course applies to both the isolated small town and the state of mind for someone treated like an outcast. The original Swedish title, F-ing Amal, is exactly the idea that serves as the driving force is in this picture. I understand why it was changed for the English speaking audience, but a better English title would have preserved that sentiment, something like "This awful place" or "Get me out of Amal." "Show me Love" puts too much emphasis on the lesbian aspect of the film, which to me seemed only a detail in the greater portrait of life in the middle of nowhere.
Details
Box office
- Budget
- SEK 9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $169,331
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,110
- Oct 17, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $219,331
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