Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief (2010)

Original title

Risto Räppääjä ja polkupyörävaras

Directed by

Mari Rantasila

Genre

fantasy film, children's film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

S

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy named Ricky Rapper and his friend Nelly Butterfly try to solve the mystery of a stolen bicycle. The film is a musical comedy with songs and light adventure set in Finnish towns.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulupbeatmusicalfunchildlikegentle

What happens

Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief (Finnish: Risto Räppääjä ja polkupyörävaras) is a 2009 Finnish musical film. The film is based on children's fantasy book series Ricky Rapper of Sinikka Nopola and Tiina Nopola. However, the film is not based on any book volume. The children's musical comedy Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief continues loosely the previous film Ricky Rapper. The film was shot in Kartanonkoski in the city of Vantaa and also in Hyvinkää, Porvoo and Sipoo in the summer 2009. Furthermore, train station scenes were shot in the Kauklahti railway station in the city of Espoo and on the Ilmala rail yard in the city of Helsinki. The previous Ricky Rapper film was shot a couple of years earlier and the kid actors, as Ricky Rapper and Nelly Butterfly, were "over-aged". Consequently, the studio hired new main actors. However, previous stars make a pop-up visit during the end credits of the film. The Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief received 38,425 viewers in its first weekend – almost double as the previous film. The result was the sixth most successful in the Finnish box-office in its first weekend all-time, and the most successful Finnish family movie all-time. In 2010, the Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief received 328 000 viewers and it was the second popular Finnish film in that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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