Living in Peril (1997)

	Directed by: Jack Ersgård	COUNTRY USA GENRE Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Living in Peril RUNNING TIME 93 minutes
	Produced by: Tabin Caplan Brad Southwick
	Written by: Jesper Ersgård Joakim Ersgård Patrik Ersgård

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Walter Woods	Rob Lowe
Harrison/Oliver	James Belushi	½
William	Dean Stockwell	½
Linda Woods	Dana Wheeler-Nicholson	½
Catherine Langtry	Alex Meneses	½
Fritz	Richard Moll	½
Truck Driver	Tony Longo	½
Dieter Krankbaum	Patrik Ersgård	½

Review

Architect Rob Lowe is Living in Peril when he travels to Los Angeles to present his drawings to wealthy builder James Belushi. After renting a flat in grumpy Dean Stockwell's apartment building, he finds himself entangled not only with these two eccentric gentlemen, but also with a sexually aggressive neighbour, a happy-go-lucky German, and an angry truck driver who has just been fired after Lowe reported his reckless driving.

This obscure film by the Swedish Ersgård brothers is worth a look – not necessarily for the story itself, but for its eccentric, evocative tone. An important factor in this is the nostalgic musical score and the careful set direction, which together create an almost Hitchcockesque mood. The Ersgårds clearly knew what they wanted, and the film is also suspenseful on its own quirky wavelength. There is an abundance of characters, entanglements and situations, and although our protagonist's choices sometimes seem more driven by the plot than by common sense, the film's stylised nature allows it to get away with that. The Ersgård brothers made a few more movies in the years that followed, before quietly disappearing from the scene.