The Hunt

4.00
    The Hunt
    2012

    Synopsis

    A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

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    Cast

    • Mads MikkelsenLucas
    • Thomas Bo LarsenTheo
    • Annika WedderkoppKlara
    • Lasse FogelstrømMarcus
    • Susse WoldGrethe
    • Anne Louise HassingAgnes
    • Lars RantheBruun
    • Alexandra RapaportNadja
    • Sebastian Bull SarningTorsten
    • Steen Ordell GuldbrandsenLars T

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Telegraph

      Mikkelsen, who is not given to sympathetic roles, has never been better. This is cinema that sinks its claws into your back.
    • 91

      The Playlist

      For anyone with even a halfway developed sense of justice The Hunt may prove stressful, frustrating, even enraging, but it’s also an unbelievably effective watch, that, if nothing else signals an undeniable return to form for Vinterberg, and yet another blistering performance from Mikkelsen. See it, if only for the debates it will cause afterward.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Propelled by Mads Mikkelsen’s shattering performance as the blameless man whose life threatens to be destroyed, the film is superbly acted by a cast that never strikes a false note or softens the impact with consolatory sentiment.
    • 88

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      It’s a pretty conventional “Lifetime Original Movie” sort of story. But co-writer/director Thomas Vinterberg (“Dear Wendy”) makes it work by building a sense of frustrating unease into it all.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      It is forthright, powerful, composed and directed with clarity and overwhelming force, yet capable of great subtlety and nuance.
    • 80

      Total Film

      Vinterberg keeps us guessing right up to and after an end shot that suggests how tough some viral rumours are to shake off.
    • 80

      Empire

      Beautifully performed and tough as nails, Vinterberg's social drama could not be any more timely.
    • 80

      Time Out London

      What a knotty, frighteningly real drama The Hunt is.

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