Film

A Second Chance

2014 · 1h 43m · Thriller · Drama

How far would you go?

IMDb

6.8

Rotten Tomatoes

52%

Metacritic

35

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.

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

Christian Grønvall

Truck driver

Ole Dupont

Funeral attendant

Molly Egelind

Woman at nightclub

Søs Egelind

Caroline

Roland Møller

Man at nightclub

Sarah Juel Werner

Woman at playground

• Susanne BierDirector · Story
• Anders Thomas JensenWriter · Story
• Sisse Graum JørgensenProducer
• Michael SnymanDirector of Photography
• Johan SöderqvistOriginal Music Composer
• Pernille Bech ChristensenEditor

Release date

September 8, 2014

Status

Released

Original language

Danish

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

14

Budget

$4,700,000

Genres

Thriller, Drama

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