A Second Chance

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A Second Chance

Release Date: September 08, 2014

Year	:	2014
Slogan	:	«How far would you go?»
Genres	:	Thriller, Drama
Production Companies	:	Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Sweden, Film i Väst, FilmFyn, Det Danske Filminstitut, Svenska Filminstitutet, Eurimages, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, DR, SVT
Director	:	Susanne Bier
Producers	:	Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Writers	:	Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen, Anders Thomas Jensen
RunTime	:	103 mins.
Budget	:	4700000

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.