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A Second Chance
Police detectives Andreas and Simon are called to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple. When Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet, he slowly loses his grip on justice, and Simon has to restore his balance between right and wrong.
9 May 1991, Hørsholm, Denmark
9 August 1952, Sweden
22 November 1984, Nakskov, Denmark
19 November 1969
22 May 1973, Rødovre, Denmark
6 March 1957
26 September 1973, Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden
11 November 1969, Denmark
3 March 1961, Vejle, Denmark
19 December 1952, Skanderborg, Denmark
27 July 1992, Denmark
20 November 1987, Denmark
14 July 1976, Aarhus, Denmark
13 November 1958, Denmark
3 October 1963, Denmark
13 June 1954, Denmark
March 24, 2015
Riddled with implausibilities but executed with jaw-clenched earnestness and benefiting from a solid twist, this dark morality tale just about gets away with it.March 17, 2015
There are some admirable, if hard-to-watch, moments here, but the film's thriller tendencies are as half-cocked as its compassion for the struggles of parenthood.October 26, 2015
Despite the considerable contrivances involved in this saga, A Second Chance is, for much of its length, quite gripping, even though in the wash-up it's not convincing on any level.March 24, 2015
Intentionally challenging, but the tastelessness is surely inadvertent.September 30, 2015
The way the twists occur tends to undermine what could be a more interesting, resonant story about the darker aspects of family, parenthood, grief and power.March 24, 2015
Unfortunately, the rest of the film, apart from the cast, has precious few redeeming features.September 24, 2014
Susanne Bier's latest is too obviously contrived to take its questions about what defines a deserving parent seriously.March 24, 2015
With style and content failing to gel, A Second Chance may just go to prove that Bier and Jensen aren't the perfect match they'd have us believe.March 24, 2015
Only few will go along with this notion and even fewer will tolerate the manner in which this premise is presented.May 15, 2016
Together, Bier and Jensen totally devastate us. This is what they do.March 24, 2015
The film is shouldered by a powerful performance by Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.July 19, 2016
Bier paints an impeccably bleak picture of her homeland, while Coster-Waldau sells the plot's more implausible moments with a nuanced performance of desperate realism.