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A brutal home-jacking by two brothers goes hopelessly wrong, and one of them goes to prison. Four years later, his brother tries to help him get his life back on track.A brutal home-jacking by two brothers goes hopelessly wrong, and one of them goes to prison. Four years later, his brother tries to help him get his life back on track.A brutal home-jacking by two brothers goes hopelessly wrong, and one of them goes to prison. Four years later, his brother tries to help him get his life back on track.
- Awards
- 11 wins & 7 nominations
Rachid El Ghazaoui
- Chalid
- (as Rachid 'Appa' El Ghazaoui)
Uwamungu Cornelis
- Chris
- (as Cornelis Mungu)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe official Belgian submission for the 2017 Academy Awards.
- ConnectionsReferences Ông Trùm Mặt Sẹo (1983)
- SoundtracksIn the Deep End
Written by H. Willemyns & B. Fevery
Performed by H. Willemyns & B. Fevery
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The Ardennes
"Kenny" (Kevin Janssens) and brother "Dave" (Jeroen Perceval) are involved in an abortive burglary that sees the latter escape leaving the former to spend the next four years in jail. When he is released, the siblings are reunited with their mother and for a while, bygones seem to be bygones with "Kenny" even seeming to forgive his ex "Sylvie" (Veerle Baetens) who now has a child and who has also taken up a job pole-dancing for a Moroccan night-club owner. It's round about now that we start to see some cracks appear in the brotherly relationship. "Kenny" finds out who the father of the child is, loses his temper, then things are exacerbated by some thugs who visit their workplace and one of those is accidentally killed. Unsurprisingly, they get fired and then have to take the corpse to the remote rural home of ex-cellmate "Stef" (Jan Bijvoet) and his pal "Joyce" (Sam Louwyck). Ostensibly they are just going to get shot of the body, but their relationship only gets worse and "Dave" begins to wonder if he can, actually, trust his brother. Robin Pront does try to mix up the narrative a bit, it's gritty and dark at times and I thought Janssens made a decent fist of his "Kenny" character. The rest of the film, though, isn't really up to much. The dialogue is strained and a bit contrived, the direction style staccato and it really falls to the eccentricities of "Stef" and "Joyce" to breath a little quirkiness into what is otherwise all just a bit of a dreary denouement. I didn't hate it, but I doubt I'd watch it again.
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Box office
- Budget
- €2,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,638
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $840
- Jan 8, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $1,366,879
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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