For Tors skyld (1982)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Tor	Jakob Ørmen
Laila	Monica Sidselrud	-
Per	Aalto Braveboy	-
Bente	Hege Kleven	-
Bjørn	Per Rollvang	-
Tors far	Ivar Nørve	½
Tors mor	Veslemøy Haslund	½
Lailas far	Helge Reiss	-
Lailas mor	Anne-Lise Tangstad	-
Pers mor	Sigrun Enge	-
Dirigenten	Willie Hoel	-
Vaktmesteren	Rolf Sand	-
Bente og Bjørns mor	Inger Teien	-
Bente og Bjørns far	Per Tofte	-

Review

Rather impotent dissection of a family ravaged by the father's drunkenness in early 1980s Oslo. The characters are conspicuously written and remain stuck on the page. And the alcoholism, which is the thematic foundation for it all, is portrayed with a jejune naïvete and a desperate lack of nuance. Still, even the most painful inadequacies can to some degree be alleviated by goodheartedness, of which this picture has plenty. It could have had its strength in the segments where we follow the title character and his four friends on their rummaging in the woods, but the acting is largely amateurish and Knut Andersen's direction is clumsy. He demonstrates that he has a better rapport with the wildlife than he does with the actors. The score, by Norwegian folk musician Sigmund Groven, is the film's best asset.