Tomas Fryk Movies
- 1981
A young boy named Reine (Tomas Fryk) employs a simple subterfuge to escape going to Children's Island, a nearby summer vacation spot, and instead sneaks off alone to the streets of Stockholm to find answers to the larger questions on life and death. His single mother (Anita Ekstroem) is unaware of her son's truancy and leaves for an extended tryst with her lover (Ingvar Hirdvall), thinking that the 11-year old is safe and taken care of at the island. Reine stays for awhile with two lonely spinsters and once with some street actors, but generally he wanders from one situation to the next, and with his tape recorder he recounts his feelings and the things he has seen. Throughout his experiences, he consistently discovers that adults employ subterfuge just as he has -- only the adults he finds often have either frankly or subliminally sexual encounters in mind. Reine also tests the waters literally, flirting with death by seeing how long he can remain under. As a result of his exploration of the world, he is loathe to grow up and be like all the adults who have tried to take advantage of him. As his innocence fades, Reine's journey ends, leaving many adult viewers to wonder if childhood may not be the better part of life. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tomas Fryk, Anita Ekström, (more)
- 1986
This is an overly long, socio-psychological drama about the emotional turmoil of 15-year-old foster-child Sussie (Anna Linden) and the difficulties experienced in her foster family. After Sussie arrives in her new home, her own inadequacies are mirrored in the family. The mother wants to win Sussie's affection, the father wants perhaps a little more than her affection, and the son is out-and-out infatuated with her. Given this environment, and her own instability, Sussie either is literally slashing out at people and things, or at herself. With little visible redemption in sight (though not ultimately discarded either), this is not a movie for the casual filmgoer. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anna Linden, Lena Granhagen, (more)
- 1987
This biting satire of high-level military corruption concerns the problems of a small town located next to a training camp. Army regulars make a quick profit by replacing an old engine of a farm vehicle with the new one stolen from the base. When the group is confronted by their commander, they cut him in on the profits and avoid being disciplined. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Hanzon, Tomas Fryk, (more)
- 1990
Inger (Helena Bergström), a single mother, has decided to return to her father's home from her life in Stockholm and sort out her life. Unfortunately, her father has grown restless, too, and is planning to sell the family house and move away, so she cannot stay long. To pass the time, she hangs out at the local dance hall. There, she dangles one man on a leash while she courts the drummer in the dance-hall band (Carl Kjellgren). She thinks that theirs is a romance beyond all others. He thinks of it merely as a pleasant affair. Eventually, she figures that out and moves back to Stockholm, and regrets stringing the second, nicer, man along. There was something epochal in the meeting of these two people however, and the band members recognize that something important has changed. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helena Bergström, Jan Mybrand, (more)
