
The Net
1995


“Friends. Family. Sacrifice.”
63 votes
A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of his mother and his new friend, he manages to find his own path.
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Guðmundur Arnar GuðmundssonStreaming availability for India
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After “Balli” (Áskell Einar Pálmason) is badly beaten up by some violent bullies, he arrives at school looking more like the lead in “Phantom of the Opera” than a pupil at a standard Icelandic comprehensive, and that attracts the teasing of “Addi” (Birgir Dagur Bjarkason) and his two friends “Siggi” (Snorri Rafn Frimansson) and “Konni” (Viktor Benóny Benediktsson). Quite quickly, though, all of these boys realise that the drug-fuelled broken homes that most of them come from suggest they have more in common than not, and soon “Balli” is taking them back to the fairly squalid home he shares wit…
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