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A Man Like Me

Comedy · Romance

A Man Like Me

East meets north.....the far north!

7.0(9) 8/16/2002 1h 30m
ComedyRomance

A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.

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Top Cast

Jón Gnarr

Jón Gnarr

Júlli

Stephanie Che Yuen-Yuen

Stephanie Che Yuen-Yuen

Qi

Sigurður Sigurjónsson

Sigurður Sigurjónsson

Valur

Þorsteinn Guðmundsson

Þorsteinn Guðmundsson

Arnar

Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir

Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir

Magga

BT

Baldur Trausti Hreinsson

Gunnar

Þorsteinn Bachmann

Þorsteinn Bachmann

Dagur

JG

Jóna Guðrún Jónsdóttir

Elín

Directed by

Róbert I. Douglas

Production

Reviews

shapirowonder

7/10

4/14/2015

What is very interesting about this movie is how it brings together two really similar cultures. While Stephanie Che in the movie is from the mainland, she is actually a rising star in today's Hong Kong cinema recently starring in "Men Suddenly in Black" and her character really reflects the ex-patriot longing felt by many who leave HK. This is placed next to Iceland which is its own isolated world from the rest of Europe. Ex-pats of Iceland also have the same feeling as those of HK, of leaving a very small place but having intense longing for it still. Jon Gnarr's character is like an expat living in his own world, trying to get by. This is where the comedy kicks in everywhere. The movie even has time to include a whole satirical commentary on pyramid schemes which Gnarr gets into which a

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