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Adam's Apples (2005)

R 04/15/2005 Drama, Comedy, Crime 1h 34m
74%
User
Score
7.7/10
70%
51/100

When it rains, it pours

Overview

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

Anders Thomas Jensen

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen

Ivan

Ulrich Thomsen

Ulrich Thomsen

Adam

Paprika Steen

Paprika Steen

Sarah

Ole Thestrup

Ole Thestrup

Dr. Kolberg

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Holger

Nicolas Bro

Nicolas Bro

Gunnar

Ali Kazim

Ali Kazim

Khalid

Gyrd Løfquist

Gyrd Løfquist

Poul

Lars Ranthe

Lars Ranthe

Esben

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Media

ADAM'S APPLES | Trailer

ADAM'S APPLES | Trailer

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Reviews

A review by Andres Gomez

Written on October 28, 2012

Good Danish black humor....

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A review by tmdb28039023

Written on August 27, 2022

Adam's Apples is simultaneously a deconstruction and a satire of the Book of Job; the former because it recognizes and highlights the underlying black humor in the biblical text, and the latter because it rightly points out that more than Job’s patience, we should talk about his madness.

Danish priest Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen) is both jobian and quixotic (the costume department deserves a pat on the back for making him look, in his priestly garb, like the subject, thought to be Cervantes, of a portrait attributed to Juan de Jáuregui), his insanity the only thing that makes his crappy life bearable. In a stroke of genius, the film explains Ivan’s pollyannish disposition with the pythonesque “Ravashi Syndrome” (“Ravashi was an Indian footballer who lost both feet in a go-karting ac...

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A review by r96sk

Written on August 6, 2023

What a strange film... a very good one, mind you.

The cast do great work in this 2005 release. Mads Mikkelsen being the obvious standout - top performance! Ulrich Thomsen doesn't really do all that much necessarily, yet still manages to make a big impact with his showing - amusing, by the way, how much hair can change the way you see someone, that ending is quite the mild cranium contort*!

I'm not really all that sold on what the film attempts to tell, but I can't deny that I had a pleasant time watching it all unfold. I wouldn't actually say it features that strong humour, perhaps some of it was lost in translation (Viaplay's subs were iffy in patches), but all that's there is enough. There is one joke at the death that is probably one of the most insulting, hitting both racist and ...

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