Ricky Rapper (2008)

Original title

Risto Räppääjä

Directed by

Mari Rantasila

Genre

fantasy film, children's film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

S

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a children's musical comedy about a ten-year-old boy named Ricky Rapper. He becomes friends with a girl his age in their suburban neighborhood. The story follows their adventures together.

lightheartedwhimsicalmusicalchildlikeupbeatgentleplayful

What happens

Ricky Rapper (Finnish: Risto Räppääjä) is a 2008 Finnish musical film. The film is based on two volumes of Sinikka Nopola's and Tiina Nopola's children's fantasy book series Ricky Rapper. The book volumes were originally released as Risto Räppääjä ja Nuudelipää of 2000 and Risto Räppääjä ja pakastaja-Elvi of 2001. Ricky Rapper is a comedy for children. It tells about the friendship between 10-year-old boy and girl in the normal suburb neighbourhood. The film was shot in Kartanonkoski in the city of Vantaa in the summer 2007. Ricky Rapper was the most viewed Finnish film in Finland in 2008 with its 209,506 viewers and it was the sixth most viewed of all the Finnish films. The film received more than 215,000 viewers, and the DVD version has been sold almost 100,000 copies. The following film Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief was released in 2010, and it received 38,425 viewers in its first weekend – almost double as the previous film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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