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Lars von Trier (written by)
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Release Date:
21 May 2003 (Belgium) more
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A quiet little town not far from here.
Plot:
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange, she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds out that their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away... full summary | full synopsis
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13 wins & 19 nominations more
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Hard to digest, but great. more (542 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Nicole Kidman ... Grace Margaret Mulligan
Harriet Andersson ... Gloria

Lauren Bacall ... Ma Ginger
Jean-Marc Barr ... The Man with the Big Hat

Paul Bettany ... Tom Edison
Blair Brown ... Mrs. Henson

James Caan ... The Big Man

Patricia Clarkson ... Vera

Jeremy Davies ... Bill Henson

Ben Gazzara ... Jack McKay

Philip Baker Hall ... Tom Edison Sr.

Thom Hoffman ... Gangster
Siobhan Fallon ... Martha (as Siobhan Fallon Hogan)

John Hurt ... Narrator (voice)
Zeljko Ivanek ... Ben
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Also Known As:
Dogville (France) (Germany)
The Film 'Dogville' as Told in Nine Chapters and a Prologue (USA) (long title)
U - Der Film 'Dogville' erzählt in neun Kapiteln und einem Prolog. (Germany) (long title)
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Rated R for violence and sexual content.
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178 min | Australia:138 min | Italy:135 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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When Nicole Kidman went to Sweden to shoot this movie, it was the first time in 15 years that she had flown on a public plane. more
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Continuity: When Chuck takes the scarf from Grace's neck it shows up two shots later, then is gone again in next shot. more
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Narrator: This is the sad tale of the township of Dogville. Dogville was in the Rocky Mountains in the US of A, up here where the road came to its definitive end, near the entrance to the old abandoned silver mine. The residents of Dogville were good honest folks...
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Featured in David Smiling Bowie (2003) (TV) more
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Young Americans more

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51 out of 63 people found the following review useful.
Hard to digest, but great., 28 August 2005
9/10
Author: Fernando Carvalho from Brazil

Tough. Once again Lars von Trier tortures the audience (as he did previously on Dancer in the Dark) by upraising the darkest side of the human being. From the beginning you know that things can only get worse, but I doubt that one can figure out neither what's to come nor the powerful conclusion. Nicole Kidman's interpretation is perfect - intense, poignant, passionate, you name it. She is fantastic and so is the small cast locked inside Dogville's scenario (a wonderful creation - I wonder how something so simple can bring such a strong effect). Again, the entire cast is fantastic and for that goes an extra credit for Lars von Trier. His capability of pushing actors to the limit and extracting painful emotions from them creates a heavy atmosphere, full of tension and, at the same time, so familiar. It is not that Dogville represents the essence of our communities, but it exposes some aspects of our lives that we prefer to hide under the carpet.

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i don't get something - mild SPOILAS mojo437
I lost brain cells watching this film *spoilers* lisaplus1
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Amazing Story, Would Have Made An Epic Real Movie... NatSec
Huge Spoiler for someone who saw Manderlay first adamyshoe
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