Okay

Okay is a warm and well-rounded everyday comedy with Paprika Steen in her first leading role. She simply IS the stubborn yet lovable Nete, who steamrollers everyone, including her husband and teenage daughter.

When Nete's father learns that he has only a very short time left to live, Nete decides, over the heads of her family, that her father is to spend his final days at home in the family's flat. She also wants her father reconciled with her brother Martin, whom their father disowned when Martin told him he was gay. Like so much else, her father becomes a project, but it all gets out of hand, not least when it turns out that he has no intention of kicking the bucket just yet.

Nete's husband Kristian gradually gets fed up with Nete's blunt and despotic manner, so when Tanja, one of his students at the university, makes a pass at him, he falls for it hook, line and sinker. Nete is a little too wrapped up in her own affairs to notice, but there are others who have eyes in their heads.

In a subplot, Martin is to be a sperm donor for the lesbian couple Trisse and Janni, but here the acting style and humour lean a little too much towards broad popular comedy. It becomes somewhat crude and clichéd. On the other hand, the characters in the main conflict seem taken straight from real life. They are nuanced and utterly believable.