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What Goes Around

Original title: Sorte kugler
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
3.4K
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What Goes Around (2009)
Comedy

A bitter and stressed man ends up in a car crash and gets another chance for lifeA bitter and stressed man ends up in a car crash and gets another chance for lifeA bitter and stressed man ends up in a car crash and gets another chance for life

  • Director
    • Anders Matthesen
  • Writer
    • Anders Matthesen
  • Stars
    • Anders Matthesen
    • Søren Rislund
    • Iben Dorner
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    3.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Anders Matthesen
    • Writer
      • Anders Matthesen
    • Stars
      • Anders Matthesen
      • Søren Rislund
      • Iben Dorner
    • 5User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins

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    Anders Matthesen and Mathilde Norholt in What Goes Around (2009)
    Kit Eichler and Anders Matthesen in What Goes Around (2009)
    Søren Rislund in What Goes Around (2009)
    Anders Matthesen, Julie Lund, and Morten Roed Frederiksen in What Goes Around (2009)
    Iben Dorner and Anders Matthesen in What Goes Around (2009)
    Thomas Hartmann and Anders Matthesen in What Goes Around (2009)
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    Anders Matthesen
    • Alex Klein
    Søren Rislund
    • Lurifax
    Iben Dorner
    Iben Dorner
    • Dorthe
    Søren Malling
    Søren Malling
    • Lægen
    Thomas Hartmann
    • Marc
    Linda Pedersen
    • Judith
    • (as Linda P.)
    Jack Arnold
    • Rasmus
    Jakob Fauerby
    • Ingolf
    Malou Batz
    • Celeste
    • (as Malou Batz Malmgreen)
    Mathilde Norholt
    Mathilde Norholt
    • Nadja
    Kit Eichler
    • Alex' mor
    Morten Roed Frederiksen
    • John
    Julie Lund
    Julie Lund
    • Simone
    René Dif
    René Dif
    • Self
    Bengt Burg
    • Self
    Thomas Doc. T. Christensen
    • Rocker
    • (as Thomas 'Doc. T' Christensen)
    Lasse Dam
    • Politikollega
    Audrey Castañeda
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    • Director
      • Anders Matthesen
    • Writer
      • Anders Matthesen
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    • Quotes

      Dorthe: I was thinking that I would use the day to make myself pretty for you

      Alex Klein: I see that you have a long day ahead of you then

    • Crazy credits
      "En hel masse dyr kom voldsomt til skade under optagelserne" ("A lot of animals were violently injured during filming")
    • Connections
      Referenced in Natholdet - med Anders Breinholt: Jørgen Fonemy SPECIAL (2011)
    • Soundtracks
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      Written by Østkyst Hustlers

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    User reviews5

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    5/10
    Sorte Kugler: Not Unenjoyable
    I read somewhere that those who enjoy the directorial work of Anders Thomas Jensen might find themselves enjoying Sorte Kugler. A servile follower of Jensen, I sought this one, the debut of star Anders Mattheson, out immediately.

    Negative, anger prone, and downright rude, Alex Klein is a real estate agent with serious financial problems and a job he's very likely to lose. His problems are solved when, rather extemporaneously, he dies. Finding himself in a strange pseudo-purgatorial gameshow, he is given the chance to win back his life by overcoming his character flaws.

    Beginning seriously, with Klein presented as a straight faced and talented salesman, it's not long before we see things quickly revealing themselves. The facade of professionalism soon dissolves to reveal the sardonic and irreverent bitterness which henceforth fills the film. Klein's meanness is consistently amusing, a particular scene in which he firmly demands correct grammar from a friend's casual anecdote deliciously witty. Mattheson's delivery is genuine, sharp, and very funny, making his character more irritatingly irritable by the second. Once we move to the afterlife, however, things take a turn for the worse. The baffling strangeness of the scenes which follow is quite perplexing, as I much assume it intends to be at first. The humour now comes from a variety of sources, none of which match the quality of the original curmudgeonly splendour of Mattheson's ramblings. The scenarios he is placed in by the gameshow are never hilarious, nor are the scenes with its host. It would have worked out a far funnier experience to simply fill the film with Klein behaving in his horrid manner. No narrative structure per-se, granted, but certainly funnier. As it does transpire, we follow a half hour or so of considerable comic potential with an hour of general mediocrity, mixing the occasional laugh with plenty of instances of dead and flat humour, giving the impression of trying too hard. The ending is not bad, even spurning a few laughs, though not particularly great either.

    After a very strong start offering the sort of black humour admittedly recalling Jensen's work, Sorte Kugler digs itself into a hole it contentedly remains seated in. Failing to live up to the high standard it originally sets, it proves very disappointing, though not unenjoyable.
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    • Release date
      • June 12, 2009 (Denmark)
    • Countries of origin
      • Denmark
      • Czech Republic
    • Official site
      • Official site (Denmark)
    • Language
      • Danish
    • Also known as
      • Черные шары
    • Production companies
      • Nimbus Film Productions
      • TV2 Danmark
      • Duckpower
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      • $5,590,871
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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