SYNOPSIS: Oscar, a 12-year-old fragile and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends, who moves into his building.   When Oscar discovers that Eli is a vampire it does not deter his increasing feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent.  When Eli loses the man who protects and provides for her, and as suspicions are mounting from her neighbors and police she must move on to stay alive.  However when Oscar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the only way she can.

EDITORIAL REVIEW:  Undoubtedly, one of not only my favorite coming of age films of all time (on my top 5), but also one of my favorite films.  Period.  This excellent movie is based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's best-selling book of the same name and tells the story of young Oskar and his rather unusual neighbor, a girl vampire named Eli.  Set in the Swedish suburb of Blackenberg in 1982, Let the Right One In has everything you'd expect from a foreign coming of age movie that we'd sell...and a whole lot more.

The enduring popularity of the vampire myth rests, in part, on sexual magnetism. In Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson's carefully controlled, yet sympathetic take on the book, the protagonists are pre-teens.  12-year-old Oskar (future heartbreaker Kåre Hedebrant) and Eli (Lina Leandersson) enter into a deadly form of puppy love.  The product of divorce, Oskar lives with his harried mother, while his new neighbor resides with a mystery man named Håkan (Per Ragnar), who takes care of her unique dietary needs.  From the wintery moment in 1982 that the lonely, towheaded boy spots the strange, dark-haired girl skulking around their outer-Stockholm tenement, he senses a kindred spirit.  They bond, innocently enough, over a Rubik's Cube, but little does Oskar realize that Eli has been 12 for a very long time.  Meanwhile, at school, bullies torment the pale and morbid student mercilessly.  Through his friendship with Eli, Oskar doesn't just learn how to defend himself, but to become a sort of predator himself, begging the question as to whether Eli really exists or whether she represents a manifestation of his pent-up anger and resentment.

There's an American remake coming out in 2010...it surely will NOT be nearly as excellent as this one.  Get this, before you see Hollywood's massacred version next year.  At least the American distributor of this Swedish version has released it uncut (no pun intended) - which, if you read the book, is important to the plot of the movie.

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STARRING: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar.
DIRECTOR: Tomas Alfredson.
AVAILABILITY: In stock! Ships within one business day.
LENGTH: 114 minutes.
LANGUAGE: Swedish, with OPTIONAL ENGLISH and SPANISH SUBTITLES.
SPECIAL FEATURES: 2.35:1 (16:9 Widescreen); Dolby Digital 5.1 audio; 1 disc; Uncut.
VIEWER DISCRETION: Brief nudity, sexual innuendo, coarse language, violence.
PICTURE QUALITY: Excellent picture quality. (what's this mean?)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Sweden (2008).
ALSO KNOWN AS: Låt den rätte komma in (original title).
DATE ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY:  January 2, 2009 (pre sale) / March 10, 2009 (official street day).
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