

Release Date
October 31, 2014 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
February 10, 2015 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Ruben Östlund
Writer
Ruben Östlund
Cast
Kristofer Hivju, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Johannes Kuhnke
Studio
Running Time
118 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for some language and brief nudity
A critical favorite at this year's Cannes Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family—handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two blond children—on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant an avalanche suddenly bears down on the... Full synopsis »
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