Product Details

• Actors: Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää, Heikki Keskinen, Pimme Korhonen
• Directors: Aki Kaurismäki
• Writers: Sakke Järvenpää, Mato Valtonen, Aki Kaurismäki
• Producers: Aki Kaurismäki, Katinka Faragó, Klas Olofsson
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English, Finnish
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Orion Home Video
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630222456X
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,921 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you know Finnish Culture, July 31, 2005

By	Tom Anderson (Stamford, CT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Leningrad Cowboys Go America [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I can tell from some of the other reviews that one really needs a better understanding of Finnish culture to appreciate this movie. Though Finns are a little more cosmopolitan now then they used to be thanks to successes like those of NOKIA etc., this movie is right on target in terms of how a lot of Finns might have been about 10 ears ago. Also it looks at how the US was and might have been interpreted by your average Finn at that time. I love Finland, and this movie.

It's probably not for everyone though.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deadpan, at its best!!!, December 30, 1998

By A Customer

Great movie! Reviews are going to be real polarized, either you love it or you hate it, there's no middle ground. The dead pan humor just builds with each scene and it just gets funnier. I've seen it 10 times now and each time it just gets better and better.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like your humor dry..., April 29, 2003

By A Customer

The first time I watched this movie, I swore these guys must be the Finnish equivalent of The Blues Brothers - a made-for-TV band that was popular enough to justify a movie. Turns out they're a real band, and pretty decent. I appreciate comedy that underplays and still manages to be funny, and I especially like the way the scenes end when the joke has been made - no endless milking. The use of non-actors in many scenes give a very nice, gritty, realistic look, especially in the bar scenes. If you're a blues fan (and I am,) keep an eye out for Duke Robillard in a cameo as a bar owner. The actor who plays the village idiot, considering he never speaks a word, is terrific. His scenes with a barber and in a shoe shop (as he tries to get the Leningrad Cowboy look) are downright poignant. For me, this film is a rare gem.