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Next Door Spy

2017 · 77 min

A gentle, curious little mystery that feels like watching a child's imagination at play, with a warm and slightly quirky tone.

Directed by
Karla von Bengtson
Genres
Family, Animation
Starring
Simone Edemann Møgelbjerg, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Mette Kristine Sloth
Overview
Ten-year old Agathe-Christine, or simply AC, prefers to be on her own. AC fancy mysteries, and from the basement in the building, where she has just moved in, she has established a small detective bureau. AC´s first mystery appears to be simple to solve, but before long AC finds herself involved in a much more complicated affair, than she could have ever foreseen.

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Directed by
Karla von Bengtson
Genres
Family, Animation
Starring
Simone Edemann Møgelbjerg, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Mette Kristine Sloth
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • identity
  • isolation
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour4
Realism6
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Genres
family, animation
Directed by
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Starring
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Runtime
77 min
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Denmark, Sweden
Languages
Danish

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