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''The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'' (Original title: ''Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann'') is a 2009 novel by [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] author Creator/Jonas Jonasson. It was adapted into a film in 2013.

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''The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'' (Original title: ''Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann'') is a 2009 novel by [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] author Creator/Jonas Jonasson.Creator/JonasJonasson. It was adapted into a film in 2013.

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* ParentalAbandonment: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia and [[spoiler:is later unceremoniously shot by Bolshevik soldiers]], Allen's mother dies two years later, leaving him to survive on his own at 15.


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* ParentalAbandonment: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia and [[spoiler:is later unceremoniously shot by Bolshevik soldiers]], Allen's mother dies two years later, leaving him to survive on his own at 15.
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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia. [[spoiler:he's later unceremoniously shot by Bolshevik soldiers]].

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* DisappearedDad: ParentalAbandonment: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia. [[spoiler:he's Russia and [[spoiler:is later unceremoniously shot by Bolshevik soldiers]].soldiers]], Allen's mother dies two years later, leaving him to survive on his own at 15.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Allan participated in Both sides of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar (Inadvertently saving the life of [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/Fransisco Franco]]) and the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, Foiled a plot to assassinate [[spoiler:Winston Churchill]], and Inadvertently caused [[spoiler: Stalin's fatal stroke]]. [[spoiler: He also made the atomic bomb possible.]]

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Allan participated in Both sides of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar (Inadvertently saving the life of [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/Fransisco [[spoiler:Fransisco Franco]]) and the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, Foiled a plot to assassinate [[spoiler:Winston Churchill]], and Inadvertently inadvertently caused [[spoiler: Stalin's fatal stroke]]. [[spoiler: He also made the atomic bomb possible.]]
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Allan participated in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and in the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. On ''both'' sides. [[spoiler: He also made the atomic bomb possible.]]

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Allan participated in Both sides of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar (Inadvertently saving the life of [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/Fransisco Franco]]) and in the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. On ''both'' sides.UsefulNotes/ColdWar, Foiled a plot to assassinate [[spoiler:Winston Churchill]], and Inadvertently caused [[spoiler: Stalin's fatal stroke]]. [[spoiler: He also made the atomic bomb possible.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia. [[spoiler:he's later unceremoniously killed by Bolshevik soldiers defending his small strawberry farm]].

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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia. [[spoiler:he's later unceremoniously killed shot by Bolshevik soldiers defending his small strawberry farm]].soldiers]].
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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia. he's later unceremoniously killed by Bolshevik soldiers defending his small strawberry farm.

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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for a socialist revolution in Russia. he's [[spoiler:he's later unceremoniously killed by Bolshevik soldiers defending his small strawberry farm.farm]].
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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for the Bolsheviks a socialist revolution in the Russian Civil War.Russia. he's later unceremoniously killed by Bolshevik soldiers defending his small strawberry farm.
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* DisappearedDad: Allan's father abandoned him and his mother to fight for the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
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** Gunilla, TheChick with her [[TeamPet Team Pets]], Buster the dog and Sonya the ''elephant''. Also [[SirSwearsALot swears. A lot]].

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** Gunilla, TheChick TheHeart with her [[TeamPet Team Pets]], Buster the dog and Sonya the ''elephant''. Also [[SirSwearsALot swears. A lot]].
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** Allan, very briefly. At the end of the "past" storyline he's weary with life and lies down to die. [[RealityEnsues Then he wakes up the next morning, because apparently you can't die just by deciding to.]] At the start of the "present" storyline, he decides that he'll just have to get around to dying some other time.

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** Allan, very briefly. At the end of the "past" storyline he's weary with life and lies down to die. [[RealityEnsues Then he wakes up the next morning, because apparently you can't die just by deciding to.]] to. At the start of the "present" storyline, he decides that he'll just have to get around to dying some other time.

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* [[UnfortunateName Unfortunate Surname]]: Herbert '''Einstein'''. He was kidnapped by the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] to work on the atomic bomb.

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* [[UnfortunateName Unfortunate Surname]]: Herbert '''Einstein'''. He was kidnapped by the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] to work on the atomic bomb.



* AdaptationalSexuality and GenderFlip: Caracas, in the book, was a gay man. In the film she's a woman and Gäddan's lover, thus removing from the table the IncompatibleOrientation.

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* AdaptationalSexuality and GenderFlip: AdaptationalSexuality: Caracas, in the book, was a gay man. [[GenderFlip In the film she's a woman woman]] and Gäddan's lover, thus removing from the table the IncompatibleOrientation.
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* ConMan: Julius.
* CoolOldGuy: Allan, in the present-day storyline and in the latter chapters of the past-day one.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Amanda Einstein]] becomes one.
* CowardlySidekick: Herbert.
* CrazyAwesome: Allan. He somehow distilled vodka from ''goat milk''.

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* %%* ConMan: Julius.
* %%* CoolOldGuy: Allan, in the present-day storyline and in the latter chapters of the past-day one.
* %%* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Amanda Einstein]] becomes one.
* %%* CowardlySidekick: Herbert.
* CrazyAwesome: %%* Crazy Awesome: Allan. He somehow distilled vodka from ''goat milk''.



* LadySwearsALot: Gunilla.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Between Benny and Gunilla.
* LoveableRogue: Many characters.

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* %%* LadySwearsALot: Gunilla.
* %%* LoveAtFirstSight: Between Benny and Gunilla.
* %%* LoveableRogue: Many characters.
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''The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'' (Original title: ''Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann'') is a 2009 novel by [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] author Jonas Jonasson. It was adapted into a film in 2013.

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''The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'' (Original title: ''Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann'') is a 2009 novel by [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] author Jonas Creator/Jonas Jonasson. It was adapted into a film in 2013.
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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: The movie sequel revolves around Allan remembering that he's in possession of the recipe to People's Soda, Russia's answer to [[CocaPepsiInc Coca-Cola]] that was created in a FreakLabAccident but which was never publicly released or mass-manufactured since the US assassinated the chief researcher and stole the recipe before they could do either: everyone who tastes it immediately declares it to be the best soft drink they've ever had and if it had been released as intended, Coke and Pepsi would've both been history and Russia would've had the world monopoly on sodas.

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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: The movie sequel revolves around Allan remembering that he's in possession of the recipe to People's Soda, Russia's answer to [[CocaPepsiInc Coca-Cola]] that was created in a FreakLabAccident but which was never publicly released or mass-manufactured since the US assassinated the chief researcher and stole the recipe before they could do either: everyone who tastes it immediately declares it to be the best soft drink they've ever had and if it had been released as intended, Coke and Pepsi would've both been history and Russia would've had the world monopoly on sodas. Naturally, multiple parties want to get their hands on it, either to massively profit off it or just because they drank it before and will do anything to get more of it.
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Since the movie sequel doesn't have a seperate page or folder, I'm adding this here

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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: The movie sequel revolves around Allan remembering that he's in possession of the recipe to People's Soda, Russia's answer to [[CocaPepsiInc Coca-Cola]] that was created in a FreakLabAccident but which was never publicly released or mass-manufactured since the US assassinated the chief researcher and stole the recipe before they could do either: everyone who tastes it immediately declares it to be the best soft drink they've ever had and if it had been released as intended, Coke and Pepsi would've both been history and Russia would've had the world monopoly on sodas.
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Amanda appears briefly in the first and is a secondary character in the sequel film.


* AdaptedOut: Bosse and Amanda Einstein.

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* AdaptedOut: Bosse and Amanda Einstein.Bosse.
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* BadassGrandpa: Allan certainly has his moments of this during the present storyline.
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* SuicideByCop: Herbert Einstein tries - [[EpicFail and fails]] - to do this in North Korea, by running away from the soldiers who are guarding him, while yelling that he is fleeing and they should therefore shoot him. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you see it) for him, he merely ends up stumbling into a broom closet which he mistook for the exit.

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Other novels by Jonasson include ''The Girl who saved the King of Sweden'' (''Analfabeten som kunde räkna'', ''"The Illiterate who could count"

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Other novels by Jonasson include ''The Girl who saved the King of Sweden'' (''Analfabeten som kunde räkna'', ''"The Illiterate who could count"




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Other novels by Jonasson include ''Literature/The Girl who saved the King of Sweden'' (''Analfabeten som kunde räkna'', ''"The Illiterate who could count"

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Other novels by Jonasson include ''Literature/The ''The Girl who saved the King of Sweden'' (''Analfabeten som kunde räkna'', ''"The Illiterate who could count"



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Other novels by Jonasson include ''Literature/The Girl who saved the King of Sweden'' (''Analfabeten som kunde räkna'', ''"The Illiterate who could count"
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Chekov's Gun


A sequel to the film, unrelated to the sequel novel, premiered on Christmas day 2016. It's called ''The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappearedd''.

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A sequel to the film, unrelated to the sequel novel, premiered on Christmas day Day 2016. It's called ''The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappearedd''.
Disappeared''.



* ChekovsGun: *Dozens*. Rest assured that no detail mentioned, however small, is just going to be there for its sake. The Iranian chief of security putting off his cigarette in Allan's coffee, the rescue of Mao's wife, Stalin's translator fainting...

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* ChekovsGun: *Dozens*.ChekhovsGun: ''Dozens''. Rest assured that no detail mentioned, however small, is just going to be there for its sake. The Iranian chief of security putting off his cigarette in Allan's coffee, the rescue of Mao's wife, Stalin's translator fainting...
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* ConMan: Julius.


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* DecemberDecemberRomance: At the very end of the novel, [[spoiler:Allan and Amanda]].


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* JackOfAllTrades: Benny, by virtue of having ''almost'' gotten a degree in countless subjects.


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* LoveAtFirstSight: Between Benny and Gunilla.


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* MadeOfIron: Among other things, Allan has trekked through the Himalayas on foot, spent five years in a gulag, and survived an explosion which totalled his house - at the age of ''ninety-nine'' - none the worse for wear.


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* SecondLove: [[spoiler:Allan for Amanda Einstein.]]


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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Benny becomes a NervousWreck in the film.


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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Caracas buying watermelons. This is a leftover of a plot thread in the book which involved Bosse (who was AdaptedOut) selling doctored watermelons.
* BookEnds: The film ends with the same words Allan said, as narrator, at the beginning of his flashbacks, thus implying the whole past story we saw is the content of Allan's conversation with Julius.


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* CerebusCallBack: Allan and Popov first meet at the urinals of a high-end restaurant in Stockholm. They meet again years later at the urinals of a squalid eatery in Moscow.
* CompositeCharacter: A very minor one: the bus driver who gets coaxed by Bulten at the beginning of the story is conflated with the ticket officer.
* CompressedAdaptation: Whole chunks of Allan's backstory are removed (from the Manhattan experiment the story skips directly to Sweden in 1948, and again from the gulag escape to Paris in 1968), while the present-day storyline gets an AdaptationDistillation.


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* MotorMouth: Esteban. [[spoiler:This gets him killed by the first shot of the Spanish civil war.]]
* MrFanservice: Gäddan gets a couple of [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless Scenes]].

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* TheAlcoholic: {{Subverted}} with Allan: he always appreciates a good glass of spirit, but we never see him become out-of-his-mind drunk.

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* TheAlcoholic: {{Subverted}} with Allan: he always appreciates a good glass of spirit, alcohol, but we never see him become out-of-his-mind drunk.



* BookDumb: Herbert Einstein (hilarious, since he's [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein his brother's]] brother) and his wife Amanda.



* ChasteHero: Allan was sterilised in his twenties, while being held in a mental institution. Not that he cared much about sex anyways.

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* ChasteHero: Allan was sterilised in his twenties, while being held in a mental institution. Not that he cared much about sex anyways. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in the last few pages.]]



* CuteKitten: At the end of the past storyline Allan settles down and adopts a stray kitten, naming him Molotov.



* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: yes, exactly.

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* EmbarrassingNickname: Per-Gunnar Gerdin, aka Boss, aka... ''Pike''.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: yes, Yes, exactly.



* ForegoneConclusion: From the very beginning we know that, no matter what, Allan's past storyline will end with him staying (and escaping from) a retirement home in his native Sweden.



* IncompatibleOrientation: It is mentioned that Caracas is hopelessly in love with Gerdin.



* NiceGuy: Again, Allan.

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* NiceGuy: Again, Allan. He only loses his temper once in his long life: [[spoiler:when a fox kills his cat Molotov.]]



* AdaptationalDyeJob:
** One of Benny's most distinctive features in the book is his ponytail, but in the film he's got short blond hair.
** Likewise, Bolt is described with blond hair and a shaggy beard in the book, while both are shaved in the film.
* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler:Gerdin]] loses most of his memory after a crash. He's otherwise not really injured besides a head wound, and can stand and talk lucidly within an hour. He just doesn't remember who he is or what he's doing there, beyond the word "Bali". This actually plays to his advantage, since [[spoiler:he is no longer a threat, and they take him along to Bali and share the spoils. Contrast his two friends, who ended up dead for their trouble]].

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* AdaptationalDyeJob:
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** One of Benny's most distinctive features in the book is his ponytail, but in the film he's got short blond hair.
balding.
** Likewise, Bolt Bulten is described with blond hair and a shaggy beard in the book, while both are shaved in the film.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the film Hinken's brother becomes Gunilla's ex boyfriend.
* AdaptationalSexuality and GenderFlip: Caracas, in the book, was a gay man. In the film she's a woman and Gäddan's lover, thus removing from the table the IncompatibleOrientation.
* AdaptedOut: Bosse and Amanda Einstein.
* CanonForeigner: BigBad Pim and Popov's son Oleg. The latter plays the role Amanda had in the novel [[spoiler:by providing the protagonists a passage to Bali at the end]].
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: {{Downplayed}}, [[spoiler:Hinken]] still meets his end by being [[spoiler:crushed under Sonya the elephant]], but while it was caused by Allan in the novel, here it's an accident.
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EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler:Gerdin]] [[spoiler:Gäddan]] loses most of his memory after a crash. He's otherwise not really injured besides a head wound, and can stand and talk lucidly within an hour. He just doesn't remember who he is or what he's doing there, beyond the word "Bali". This actually plays to his advantage, since [[spoiler:he is no longer a threat, and they take him along to Bali and share the spoils. Contrast his two friends, who ended up dead for their trouble]].


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The members of Never Again, while all having full names in the novel, are here called only by their codenames: Bulten/Bolt, Hinken/Bucket and Gäddan/Pike[[note]]which was not Gerdin's "official" Never Again nickname in the novel, but an EmbarrassingNickname[[/note]].

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* BadassGrandpa: Allan certainly has his moments of this during the present storyline

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* TheAlcoholic: {{Subverted}} with Allan: he always appreciates a good glass of spirit, but we never see him become out-of-his-mind drunk.
* BadassGrandpa: Allan certainly has his moments of this during the present storyline storyline.



* ChasteHero: Allan was sterilised in his twenties, while being held in a mental institution. Not that he cared much about sex anyways.
* ChekovsGun: *Dozens*. Rest assured that no detail mentioned, however small, is just going to be there for its sake. The Iranian chief of security putting off his cigarette in Allan's coffee, the rescue of Mao's wife, Stalin's translator fainting...
* CoolOldGuy: Allan, in the present-day storyline and in the latter chapters of the past-day one.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: Amanda Einstein]] becomes one.



* LoveableRogue: many characters.

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* LoveableRogue: many characters.Many characters.
* NiceGuy: Again, Allan.


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* AdaptationalDyeJob:
** One of Benny's most distinctive features in the book is his ponytail, but in the film he's got short blond hair.
** Likewise, Bolt is described with blond hair and a shaggy beard in the book, while both are shaved in the film.
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* DeathSeeker:
** Herbert Einstein longs for an end to his useless life, but he's too much of a DirtyCoward to actually commit suicide. [[spoiler: He eventually finds some happiness and ultimately dies of old age.]]
** Allan, very briefly. At the end of the "past" storyline he's weary with life and lies down to die. [[RealityEnsues Then he wakes up the next morning, because apparently you can't die just by deciding to.]] At the start of the "present" storyline, he decides that he'll just have to get around to dying some other time.
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A sequel to the film, unrelated to the sequel novel, premiered on Christmas day 2016. It's called''The one-hundred-and-one-year-old man who skipped out on the bill and disappeared''.

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A sequel to the film, unrelated to the sequel novel, premiered on Christmas day 2016. It's called''The one-hundred-and-one-year-old man who skipped out called ''The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the bill Bill and disappeared''.
Disappearedd''.

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