Kopps

2003 Swedish film

7 February 2003 (2003-02-07) (Sweden)

Running time

90 minutesCountrySwedenLanguageSwedish

Kopps is a 2003 Swedish action comedy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 7 February 2003,^[1] directed by Josef Fares. The name itself is a pun on pronouncing the English word "Cops" with a Swedish accent.

Plot

The film concerns the police force of a small fictional Swedish village, Högboträsk. The village is so peaceful that crime has become nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime. This would mean the loss of income for the policemen, so they begin to stage crimes in order to preserve their jobs. This includes burning down the local hotdog stand, hiring a drunk to steal a packet of sausages, thrashing a local car, faking a shootout and staging a kidnapping using their friends as actors.

Cast

Fares Fares - Jacob
Torkel Petersson - Benny
Göran Ragnerstam - Lasse
Sissela Kyle - Agneta
Eva Röse - Jessica Lindblad
Christian Fiedler - Folke
Erik Ahrnbom - Håkan
Harry Goldstein - Göran
Michael Fares - Mike
Viktor Friberg - Janne
Jan Fares - Mike's father
Yngve Dahlberg - Gunnar
Kerstin Hellström - Kindergarten teacher

American remake

Shortly after Kopps' release in 2003, Adam Sandler and Columbia Pictures bought the rights and announced their plans to remake the comedy into an English-language release, but the project did not materialise.^[2]

References

^ "Kopps". Swedish Film Database. 7 February 2003. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
^ Dunkley, Cathy; Harris, Dana (2003-04-15). "Col calls on 'Kopps' for Sandler". Variety. Retrieved 2023-04-17.