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Overview

User Rating:
7.4/10   5,235 votes
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Writers:

Jens Dahl (writer)
Nicolas Winding Refn (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

30 August 1996 (Denmark) more

Genre:

Crime | Thriller more

Tagline:

You don't have a chance. Seize it! more

Plot:

Frank is a drug pusher on the roll, until he makes a huge deal with dope that he hasn't payed for, and he gets busted by the police... more | add synopsis

Awards:

1 win more

NewsDesk:
(44 articles)

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User Comments:

"You've got no chance! Grab it!" Yes, I love it and its personal! more (36 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kim Bodnia ... Frank

Zlatko Buric ... Milo
Laura Drasbæk ... Vic
Slavko Labovic ... Radovan

Mads Mikkelsen ... Tonny
Peter Andersson ... Hasse
Vanja Bajicic ... Branko
Lisbeth Rasmussen ... Rita
Levino Jensen ... Mike

Thomas Bo Larsen ... Junkie
Lars Bom ... Cop
Michael Hasselflug ... Cop
Nicolas Winding Refn ... Brian (as Jang Go Star)
Jesper Lohmann ... Mikkel
Steen Fridberg ... Lasse
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Additional Details

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

Denmark

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Copenhagen, Denmark


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Frank (Kim Bodnia) is in every scene of the movie, except the second-to-last scene. more

Goofs:

Continuity: When Frank enters the room and sits down next to sleeping Vic, he grabs her left leg and shakes it, but in the following shot, he drops her right leg. more

Quotes:

Frank: [pulls a gun] I need your money and your drugs.
Mike: Oh, man. Now you've lost it.
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Spot: Zlatko Buric (#3.6)" (2005) more

Soundtrack:

Into the Sun more


FAQ

Does Tonny die?
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31 out of 33 people found the following comment useful.
"You've got no chance! Grab it!" Yes, I love it and its personal!, 12 April 2005
10/10
Author: OriginalPirate from Berlin, Germany

Wow, I've just watched it. Probably, it'd be better to just lay back, think about the movie and, only after cooling down on emotions, review it.

But not this one.

"Pusher" tells us the story of, perhaps, the worst week of Frank's life, a 'middleweight' dealer caught in an unpayable debt to pay to Eastern European type mafia. And as his story unfolds, your blood pressure will rise just like the incredible tension increasing throughout the movie. No wonder, the debt grows higher and higher every day. Will Frank be able to ever repay it? Its just like the tag-line says:

"You've got no chance! Grab it!"

The fresh thing about this movie is that it shows what is actually happening somewhere in the middle of the 'food-chain' of drug dealing. Not at the top, covered by movies such as Casino, Scarface, Blow, or any other high budget movie made in Hollywood. After all Copenhagen is just not a world of amazing luxury and incredible piles of coke here and there. But the movie doesn't follow another cliché' either. It doesn't show us the bottom, where junkies scavenge on each other, sell their mothers for a gram of heroin, a topic which is usually covered by some low-budget off-movies.

Pusher is the ultimate, pure, refined truth about drug dealing. I have a personal experience, myself being for a time an immigrant into Denmark (I've never been a criminal or ever wanted to be, though, just to clarify that matter). And some guys, that I've came across upon coming here, went into this businesses and well, they all hit rock bottom. OK, the movie is hard to get into with its dramatic realism, but I assure you: this movie is as close to coarse truth and gritty reality as it gets!

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