The Grump was selected to compete for the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

[3] It is based on a 2014 novel by Kyrö, the third volume by the author, in which this character appears.

the Grump, Petra Frey, Mari Perankoski, and Iikka Forss.

The film tells the story about a stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer — whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric — raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and successful daughter-in-law.

[6] Kinnunen reprised his role in the 2022 film The Grump: In Search of an Escort, directed by Mika Kaurismäki and also in Long Good Thursday.