| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Won | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Denmark. |
Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Susanne Bier
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray/DVD, Sony)
(Starz)
Two boys are bullied at school. One of them retaliates with a vicious attack and threatening to kill the bully with a knife. Later, the other boy's father is assaulted by a stranger after breaking up a playground fight. The father doesn't fight back, so the boys plan their own retaliation by building a pipe bomb. These serious but somewhat overstated themes are juxtaposed against scenes in Africa where one of the boy's father is a doctor. There he must decide whether or not to treat a killer and rapist, or let the locals retaliate. His crimes may be more heinous, but he is really just a bully grown up. Susanne Bier has written and directed a complex story, full of real characters, expertly acted by some of the finest Danish talent.
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