From Queerguru Archives : the delightful TEDDY BEAR a Sundance Winner in 2012

 

This is the story of Dennis (Kim Kold) a Danish middle-aged pumped-up 6′ 5″ bodybuilder who weighs in at 305 lbs but still lives at home with his diminutive shrew of a mother who bullies him like mad.  After Dennis’s old Uncle Bent (Allan Mogensen) marries his new young Thai bride it sets him off thinking that he too may actually be able to get a lady friend of his own.

After lying to his mother he sneaks off to Thailand but this powerfully shy big man can not overcome his fears and insecurities when he tries his hand at being a sex tourist. He is totally miserable in Pattaya City until he discovers a gym and the widow owner Toi (Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard) and suddenly things are looking up.   The only snag is how the hell is he going to tell his fierce controlling mother?

Usually, Danish movies are always so bleak …. maybe it’s something to do with all that cold weather…. but despite the icy glares of Dennis’s mother, this one was really quite sweet and totally charming with such a pitch-perfect performance from Kold.
When it screened at Sundance in 2012 the filmmaker Mads Matthiesen deservedly won the World Cinema Directing Award

The film is available to stream from Amazon, Hoopla and kanopy


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