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A Second Chance(2014)
Status: Released
Date: 2014-09-08
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155 Votes
Time: 1h 43m
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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.
Languages: Danish, Swedish.
Countries:
Denmark,
Sweden
Budget: $4,700,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
FilmFyn
Movie: A Second Chance
Top 10 Billed Cast
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Andreas
Ulrich Thomsen
Simon
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Tristan
May Andersen
Sanne
Maria Bonnevie
Anna
Kirsten Lehfeldt
Julie
Peter Haber
Gustav
Ewa Fröling
Ingrid
Thomas Bo Larsen
Klaus
Bodil Jørgensen
Forensic pathologist
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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.
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2014-09-08
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