Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström (born 2 June 1946) is a Swedish film director.
He first became known for directing almost all of the music videos of the Swedish pop group ABBA, before he subsequently became a feature film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog (1985) and later for The Cider House Rules (1999).
Films directed with pages on TV Tropes:
- ABBA: The Movie (1977)
- My Life as a Dog (1985)
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
- Something to Talk About (1995)
- The Cider House Rules (1999)
- Chocolat (2000)
- The Shipping News (2001)
- Casanova (2005)
- The Hoax (2006)
- Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
- Dear John…. (2010)
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
- Safe Haven (2013)
- A Dog's Purpose (2017)
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
Tropes featured in his works include:
- The Film of the Book: Several of his films are adaptations of books, including two Nicholas Sparks romance novels: Dear John and Safe Haven.
- Recurring Element: Dogs. He directed two films that have dogs as protagonists, Hachi: A Dog's Tale, which is a loose adaptation of the real-life story of Hachikō, and the film adaptation of A Dog's Purpose. The movie that first rose him to fame, My Life as a Dog, is about a kid that, as the title implies, identifies himself with a dog, specifically comparing himself to Laika, the first dog sent into space.
- White Void Room: Several of the music videos he directed for ABBA were shot on these, such as "Ring Ring", "Waterloo", "Mamma Mia", and "Take a Chance on Me".
