Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Nikolaj Coster-WaldauAndreas
- Ulrich ThomsenSimon
- Nikolaj Lie KaasTristan
- May AndersenSanne
- Maria BonnevieAnna
- Kirsten LehfeldtJulie
- Peter HaberGustav
- Ewa FrölingIngrid
- Thomas Bo LarsenKlaus
- Bodil JørgensenForensic pathologist
Recommendations
- 40
Empire
A decent cast gives it more credibility than it deserves. - 40
Time Out London
The thriller tendencies here are as half-cocked as its compassion for the struggles of parenthood, even if there are some admirable, if hard-to-watch, moments when Bier refuses to turn away from horror and pain. - 40
The Telegraph
This tale, more mechanical than human, is finally beyond [Bier's] skillset: it required ruthless tinkering, not the softly-softly approach. - 40
CineVue
There is a tender story about paternal love and the desire to do right by one's family within A Second Chance but, regrettably, Bier's brand of melodrama derails it before it begins. - 40
Empire
A decent cast gives it more credibility than it deserves. - 40
Time Out London
The thriller tendencies here are as half-cocked as its compassion for the struggles of parenthood, even if there are some admirable, if hard-to-watch, moments when Bier refuses to turn away from horror and pain. - 40
The Telegraph
This tale, more mechanical than human, is finally beyond [Bier's] skillset: it required ruthless tinkering, not the softly-softly approach. - 40
CineVue
There is a tender story about paternal love and the desire to do right by one's family within A Second Chance but, regrettably, Bier's brand of melodrama derails it before it begins.
