After both signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and have to find a way to get out of their binding contracts.
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Title: The Surprise (2015)
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| Jeroen van Koningsbrugge | ... | Jacob van Zuylen de With | |
| Georgina Verbaan | ... | Anne de Koning | |
| Jan Decleir | ... | Cornald Muller | |
| Henry Goodman | ... | Mr. Jones | |
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Ankur Bahl | ... | Asif |
| Naveed Choudhry | ... | Moshin | |
| Oliver Gatz | ... | Halim | |
| Ronny Jhutti | ... | Khuram | |
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Elisabeth Andersen | ... | Mother |
| Tamar Baruch | ... | Marissa de la Rue | |
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Michiel Blankwaardt | ... | Truckdriver |
| Pierre Bokma | ... | Security Van Zuylen Foundation | |
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Judith Edixhoven | ... | Assistant De Wijs |
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Hubert Fermin | ... | De Wijs |
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Reinier Hattink | ... | Assistant De Wijs |
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An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract. Written by N279 Entertainment
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My expectations were low because of the trailer, but this dark comedy was both less dark and less predictable than I expected, and honestly one of the best foreign language films I've seen in a long time. The direction is tight and just about perfect. You can see the influence of both Wes Anderson and Francis Veber in it, especially in the atmosphere, but unlike WA it isn't so over the top as to take you out of the movie, and the comedy is less broad than in a FV film.
Jeroen van Koningsbrugge is completely believable in the title role, and while Georgina Verbaan's role is less complex she does have the difficult task of being a compelling romantic target for a without falling into a classic trope, and I would say she got it spot-on. The other actors are fine in roles that however are fairly one-dimensional
Visually the movie is stunning, and it has some great cars; don't watch it on a small screen if you can avoid it. An American remake would probably make it all about the car chases, which here are just the right length.
I wish Mike van Diem had more film credits, but apparently Hollywood sucked his soul and he spent 15 years recovering. The Surprise was a hell of a comeback.