The Hunt (2012)
Jagten
"The lie is spreading."
Critics Score
🎬 84%
(RT: 92%, MC: 77) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Thomas Bo Larsen as Theo
Annika as Klara
Lasse Fogelstrøm as Marcus
Susse Wold as Grethe
Anne Louise Hassing as Agnes
Alexandra Rapaport as Nadja
Is The Hunt good?
Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 84%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie. Wikipedia ↗
About the Film
The Hunt is a 2012 Danish drama directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Thomas Vinterberg created one of the most agonizing and morally complex dramas of the decade, exploring how quickly the presumption of innocence collapses when children and sexual abuse are involved, and how communities weaponize protective instincts into persecution. Mads Mikkelsen's performance — controlled, dignified, and increasingly desperate as every avenue of defense is closed to him — won him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.
