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A Second Chance
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.
2015 · Directed by Susanne Bier · 103 min · Thriller · Drama · 9 frames
Tagline
How far would you go?
Crew
- Written by: Anders Thomas Jensen
- Cinematography: Michael Snyman
- Edited by: Pernille Bech Christensen
- Music: Johan Söderqvist
- Produced by: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Cast
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Andreas
- Ulrich Thomsen as Simon
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Tristan
- May Andersen as Sanne
- Maria Bonnevie as Anna
- Kirsten Lehfeldt as Julie
- Peter Haber as Gustav
- Ewa Fröling as Ingrid
- Thomas Bo Larsen as Klaus
- Bodil Jørgensen as Forensic pathologist
Production
- Country: Denmark, Sweden
- Language: Danish, Swedish
- Studios: Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Sweden, Film i Väst, FilmFyn
- Budget: $4,700,000
- Themes: police, domestic violence, family tragedy, woman director, disturbed, brisk
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