Pusher

Name: Pusher
Brand: Metrodome
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Refn, Nikolas Winding

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Frank and Tonny are foul-mouthed, small-time drug dealers who constantly (and comically) brag about their squalid sexual exploits. But when a drug deal goes bad and Frank is arrested then released for lack of evidence, he finds himself in deep debt with a ruthless Yugoslav dealer who wants his money now. Frank, believing hes been betrayed by Tonny, takes revenge, making one desperate ploy after another as his life spirals into a nightmare of bad choices. Though clearly influenced by recent hipster movies such as Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction, a truer ancestor to Pusher is Martin Scorseses Mean Streets. Pusher is brutally realistic and rigorously unsentimental--there are no flashy camera tricks. The movie takes into account the occasional moment of gentleness in Franks troubled relationship with a prostitute but doesnt use that to exonerate him. And yet, despite everything, Frank is sympathetic simply because hes human. The performances are excellent, the editing sharp and propulsive, the violence is spare but extremely effective. Pusher slowly draws its net tighter and tighter, until every moment seems charged with menace. --Bret Fetzer

Product details

Languages:: Original: Danish , Original: Swedish
Translation missing: en.product.details.running_time:: 105 Translation missing: en.product.details.minutes
Number of Discs:: 1
Aspect Ratios:: 1.78:1
Publisher:: Metrodome
Publication Date:: 2000-07-24
Release Date:: 2000-07-31

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