Brian Patterson, Dejan Cukic, Jesper Christensen

Arvid is a bank clerk whose girlfriend Henne is about to leave him because he is so boring. When Arvid accidentally foils a bank heist by hitting Franz over head, he realizes that Franz is really just...( read more  read more... ) a decent guy trying to raise money for he and his girlfriend Astrid to have a baby through artificial insemination. Seeing this as a chance not only to help Franz, but prove to his own girlfriend that his life is filled with danger and excitement, Arvid decides to rob a mail van, give the proceeds to Astrid, and find a way to spring Franz out of prison.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Lasse Spang Olsen

Release Date: January 1, 1999

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DVD Release Date: April 19, 2005

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  • December 21, 2007
    Except for a really bad idea for an ending, this is excellent. The way the comedy bleeds -- no pun intended -- through everything that is falling apart here is very entertaining. Kim Bodnia puts in an extraordinary performance as the put-upon, but always willing to help, older ...( read more)brother of kind-hearted and positively motivated Dejan Cukic. This is very much worth watching.
  • June 11, 2009
    Amazing movie. Laughed my head off, but it's not just funny..... Love it.
  • May 13, 2008
    hahaha ... this movie is great
  • May 10, 2008
    ha ha Crazy Serbs ...love this movie.. Why ?

    I Dont Know ;)
  • March 24, 2008
    The story starts out as a relatively normal one about a bank clerk who averts a bank robbery, mostly by chance, is interviewed on national telivision, yet somehow still manages to bore his girlfriend enough for her to dump him, all in the same day. It then takes a surreal twist a...( read more)s the wife of the now jailed bank robber barges into his apartment and gives him a guilt trip about why he couldn't just have let the bank robber take the money so she could get the expensive operation she needs for them to be able to have a much-wanted baby. The bank clerk is mightily confused by all this, and approaches his criminal brother with ideas of robbing one of the bank's cash-transport vehicles (in a rather special way) and helping the bank robber of of jail in order to reunite them and make things well again.

    This is when one discovers the true nature of the film.

    The bank clerk's brother is basically a complete psycho with his own very special right/wrong codex (at one point he tells us how in China it is ok to eat dogs, and that it's up to oneself what is right and wrong - hence the title). As things progress, it becomes clear the movie is quite un-serious, and it becomes very easy to just sit back and enjoy the bizarre and often twisted situations that arise.

    Two young chain-smoking chefs working for the criminal brother deliver the much-needed comical relief, responding to the brother's orders of dumping yet another corpse out in the Danish marsh with lines like "But.. but we're just cooks"!

    It is impossible to really do the movie justice with any form of narration. Much of the action would sound very disturbing if retold, but when seen along with the characters' expressions and in light of the whole movie, including the refreshingly unexpected ending, it is hard to take very seriously.

    The dialogue of the movie, reminiscent of classics like Pulp Fiction and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, is what really shines through. As the story unfolds and becomes more and more far-fetched, each line of dialogue becomes a stand-alone punchline in as of itself, leaving most audiences (at least the ones I've been with) roaring with laughter.
  • November 16, 2007
    pffft.... big deal, we eat dogs here too... "azucena" anyone?!?!
  • November 12, 2007
    I like Bodnia so I saw this because of him. Well, what a surprise! It is way better than I thought! It's well worth a look. It's so twisted that you just have to laugh :)
  • November 2, 2007
    They eat human babies too.
  • May 29, 2007
    Very funny danish film, love it!

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