Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
Leonard Samuelsson Heinemann
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- (as Leonard Heinemann)
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The original material the film is based on, "The Snowman" by Jo Nesbo, is a gripping thriller brilliantly composed with complex characters. However, this film adaption lacks everything. Frankly, there is very little left of the original story. The scriptwriters not only tampered with the plot, but altered characters as well. It is an entirely different story that is badly constructed with gaping holes in the plot.
Without having read the book, I'd imagine it would be slightly better with decent performances from the actors. Shame that had such an awful script to work with.
Without having read the book, I'd imagine it would be slightly better with decent performances from the actors. Shame that had such an awful script to work with.
- ambramoore
- Oct 16, 2017
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- TriviaTomas Alfredson has said that production was too rushed. He came on board late, and reckons that up to 15% of the screenplay was never filmed. Location filming in Norway was shortened so production could move to London, which compromised the story. He was also not given enough budget to shoot certain scenes in the script. As a result, several subplots in the film are unfinished and never resolved, characters come and go without explanation and even straight up disappear from the film (most notable being J.K. Simmons' character), and several continuity errors and plot holes are present in the story.
- GoofsNear the end, when Hole has figured out who the killer is, he calls his police detail to have them track a cell phone signal. They come back with a location, plus the color and model of the car the phone is traveling in.
- Quotes
Harry Hole: I need a case to work on.
Gunnar Hagen: I apologize for Oslo's low murder rate.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Crime Connections: Episode #1.4 (2012)
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Written by Tomas Alfredson
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- Also known as
- El muñeco de nieve
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Box office
- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,700,035
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,372,565
- Oct 22, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $43,084,060
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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