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The Green Butchers (2003)

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

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From Time Out New York

Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen. Fed up with their obnoxious boss, two doltish butchery employees, Svend (Mikkelsen) and Bjarne (Kaas), break away to open a competing shop. Their new endeavor starts inauspiciously, but when a man accidentally freezes to death in the meat locker, his bad fortune is their business opportunity. Taking cues from cannibal comedies Sweeney Todd and Delicatessen, Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen adds enough new wrinkles to fashion a decidedly sick, dryly funny affair, one with a final twist that's bloody good sauce on the meat pie.

Author: DD'A 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen full cast

Duration: 100 mins


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