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A Second Chance

A Second Chance

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 8, 2014

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Thriller, Drama

User Score

66%

Original Title

En chance til

Production Companies

Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Sweden, Film i Väst, FilmFyn, DR, SVT

Director

Susanne Bier

Budget

$4,700,000

Description

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.