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Adam's Apples

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Adam's Apples (2007)

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Consensus: Good and evil collide with interesting results in Adam's Apples, a dark Biblical allegory that’s alternatively funny and shocking.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Synopsis: Sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church, Adam, a middle-aged neo-Nazi, is warmly welcomed by the cheerful vicar, Ivan. Although Adam is crude, full of hostility, and clearly beyond redemption, Ivan encourages him to choose a goal that will occupy his time there. When... Sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church, Adam, a middle-aged neo-Nazi, is warmly welcomed by the cheerful vicar, Ivan. Although Adam is crude, full of hostility, and clearly beyond redemption, Ivan encourages him to choose a goal that will occupy his time there. When Adam dismissively replies that he will bake an apple pie, Ivan assigns him the task of nurturing the church's lone apple tree. If by the time this unassuming tree has been attacked by crows, infested with maggots, and struck by lighting, you are not reasonably certain it has become the battleground for a fiercely irreverent struggle between good and evil, then you have not had the pleasure of meeting an Anders Thomas Jensen film. With a supporting bunch of characters that includes an Arab immigrant who routinely robs gas stations and a chubby former tennis pro and sex addict, this glib parable of religion and human nature plays out with wit and sophistication. Into Adam and Ivan (played with deadpan perfection by Ulrich Thomsen and Mads Mikkelsen), Jensen deposits competing philosophies. Ivan, whose absurd philosophical optimism would have Voltaire falling out of his pew, interprets events as the devil testing people. Adam shakes his unflappable faith by suggesting that evil simply doesn't exist. Adam's Apples is a wickedly dark comedy by one of cinema's most exciting directors. Following its hugely successful theatrical release in Denmark in April 2005, Adam's Apples received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. Since Cannes, the picture has played at festivals around the world, from Toronto and Sundance to Sydney and Seattle, picking up many awards along the way, including 3 Danish Academy Awards, Best Film and Best Actor honors, and numerous Audience Awards. Adam's Apples will open exclusively at the Clearview Chelsea in New York on March 16, and this will be followed by exclusive engagements in Los Angeles and Boston on April 13th, and San Francisco on May 11th, with additional cities following. -- © Outsider Pictures [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Nicolaj Kaas, Ali Kazim, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen, Ole Thestrup

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Mie Andreasen, Tivi Magnusson
Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen
Composer: Jeppe Kaas

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 1, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case -
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Unspecified - Danish
  • Subtitled - English

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Brilliant movie!
by: legolas777 3/16/07


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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
by: REEL_REVIEWER 11/5/05


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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
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ADAM'S APPLES gets the nod from Denmark for Oscar's Best Foreign Film category ...
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