Alma (Helene Bergsholm), age 15, lives in the desolate town of Skoddeheimen, a place anyone who grew up in rural Vermont will instantly recognize as death to all teenagers’ spirits. She opens the film ...

I would love this movie to become the Risky Business or Pump Up the Volume for a generation of small-town Norwegian teens raised on Internet pornography. Even with its opening scene of a nubile young ...

From left: Malin Bjorhovde, Helene Bergsholm and Beate Stofring in "Turn Me On, Dammit!" New Yorker Films photo Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is bored, frustrated and dead set on getting out of the ...

Alma, the 15-year-old heroine of the Nordic import “Turn Me On, Dammit!,” is introduced pleasuring herself on the floor of her kitchen to the chatter of a phone sex operator. Instead of setting up a ...

Set in the Norwegian boonies, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s first fiction feature (based on Olaug Nilssen’s 2005 novel) introduces its fifteen-year-old protagonist, Alma (Helene Bergsholm), with her hand ...

Fifteen-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is so desperately horny she distracts herself from her dull cashier’s job by rocking back and forth on a roll of coins, her reverie interrupted only when she’s ...

Venerable New Yorker Films is back in the indie distribution game. Their next 2012 entry is Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s sexually frank 76-minute coming-of-age comedy, “Turn Me On, Dammit!,” laced with ...

You know a movie’s worthwhile when it pulls one of the oldest tricks in the book — reaction shots of an adorable dog — and it actually works. The dog in the brisk and incisive Norwegian coming-of-age ...

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically ...