16 Mar 2000
Stranger Than Fiction
Nothing is as it seems when four friends agree to cover up a killing. When they begin to doubt who among them is telling the truth, they find that life can be stranger than fiction.
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Alexander is a talk show host on TV and a partying bachelor privately with an awful love life even though he dreams of settling down. One day his old friend Ralf brings him a manuscript for a book that he can't get published and asks Alexander to put his name on it for some more publicity. Alexander agrees without reading and finds himself in trouble when the book comes out and the views expressed in it are opposite to his own.
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Johan Rheborg Alexander Engberg
Alexandra Rapaport Åsa, journalist
Kristian Luuk Ralf Nyström
Gerd Hegnell Therapist
Pia Johansson Publisher
Martina Haag Single mother
Karolina Rahm Gaby
Claudia Galli Concha Girl without brother in New York
Henrik Hjelt Therapist's son
Gloria Tapia Copy editor
Magnus Härenstam TV show host
Cecilia Frode Camilla
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