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The Green Butchers

2003, Movie, R, 100 mins

GREEN BUTCHERS, THE | DE GRONNE SLAGTERE
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Writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen's melancholy black comedy mines the deep vein of flat-out weirdness that runs through an apparently sleepy, picturesque Danish community. It's hard to say why Svend (Mads Mikkelsen) and Bjarne (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) are friends, except that they're united by mutual oddness. Self-righteous, perpetually ill-at-ease Svend is coated with a constant sheen of nervous sweat, while Bjarne, whose parents and wife died in a car crash seven years earlier... read more leave a comment
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The Green Butchers is a comedy that combines the trite, the morbid and the amusing. Bjarne and Svend are pals. Svend has great ambition driven by an equally great inferiority complex, while Bjarne hardly cares about anything else at all apart from Astrid, his girlfriend. Starting their own butcher shop enables them to escape from their vicious boss, Holger, but the shop doesn't do well until a bizarre coincidence leads Svend to concoct a new dish for their organic butcher shop. Business takes off, but will they still be able to obtain the ingredients for this special dish?
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The Green Butchers movie trailer - starring Bodil Jorgensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Line Kruse, Ole Thestrup. Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Theatrical Release Date: 12/10/2004 Genre: Drama Rating: R
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Posted: 3/17/2008
Year: 2003
Rated R

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Cast
Nikolaj Lie Kaas: Bjarne Amager & Eigil Per Amager
Mads Mikkelsen: Svend
Line Kruse: Astrid
Ole Thestrup: "Sausage" Holger
Bodil Jorgensen: Tina
Aksel Erhardtsen: Reverend Villumsen

 

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