A ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 5.9/10 | |
Released: | January 13, 2006 | |
Runtime: | 135 min | |
Genres: | Drama Comedy Biography | |
Companies: | Finnish Film Foundation Solar Films | |
Cast: | Peter Franzén Jasper Pääkkönen Juha Veijonen Elina Hietala | |
Crew: | Marko Leino Aleksi Mäkelä | |
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