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Sweet Dreams

2003 · 103 min

A wandering, bittersweet drama about unexpected turns and unlikely refuge, carried by a gentle melancholy and a hopeful lift.

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Drama, Romance
Overview
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.

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    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
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    Action2
    Horror1
    Humour3
    Realism7
    Romance5
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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