Twisted Roots
2009 · 99 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 229 VOTES · DIR. Saara Saarela
Overview
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.
Dialogue Timeline — 619 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:05 Edith film presents In cooperation with film I visit.
00:05:15 Good.
00:08:24 Hey...
00:11:18 Nothing.
00:16:58 It's our home.
00:20:15 I’ll make us coffee.
00:23:06 That's why we eat liver and take iron...
00:25:42 Hi, Mirjami. Hi.
00:28:12 I thought you needed to know too.
00:32:50 How did she take it?
00:38:50 Even if I cried on the phone.
00:40:38 I have to go. I'm meeting with the kids.
00:42:51 By flying to Afghanistan or South America.
00:46:47 The store's open!
00:50:14 How would I have known! You're being unfair.
00:53:51 Was it worth it, huh?
00:56:51 And now he's disappeared and hasn't been paying the installments.
01:00:58 Even if he loses his home. It was just a suggestion.
01:06:46 That is an expression of a dominant allele of a certain gene?
01:12:53 I'll look at the photos with you.
01:15:26 Hello. I work for a debt collection agency. - Hi.
01:19:07 I'm afraid they're not going to do anything.
01:25:22 I've had a grandson all these years, and you haven't told me.
12:08:00 in the savings account.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed619
Dialogue density6.3 lines / min
First line00:00:05
Final line12:08:00
Production Record
DirectorSaara Saarela
LanguageFI
IMDb votes229