Blackmail for Beginners

Sep 30, 2011

1h 33m

★ 5.5

Overview

In desperate need of $150,000 for his father's heart transplant, Simen tries to blackmail a dysfunctional robber.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Merkur Film

Fokus Film

Blackmail for Beginners Trailers

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Cast

Simen Bergren

Johan Tinus Lindgren

Abubabu Khan

Irasj Asanti

Grethe Ravnerud

Unni Bergendahl

Christine

Adele Karoline Dahl

Ingrid

Hege Elsmo-Martinsen

Vidar Bergren

Kim Fangen

Grandmother

Wenche Foss

Policeman

Porfirid Gutierrez

Else Bergren

Marianne Krogness

Grandmother

Elsa Lystad

Olav Ravnerud

Lars Mjøen

Investigator

Gard Pedersen

Womanizing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn.

6.8

The Informers

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5.7

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5.8

Roadblock

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6.4

Out of the Fog

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7.2

Hoffman

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1.3

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0.0

All Rascals

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6.1

Night Key

Apr 18, 1937

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5.0

Behind the Headlines

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6.9

Little Caesar

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6.7

The Unholy Three

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7.1

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0.0

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5.6

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6.7

Odds Against Tomorrow

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An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

7.2

Haider

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6.8

El atraco

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No overview available.

6.3

All at Once

Jun 5, 2014

Tim and Dan - fellow losers from a provincial town. Studies over, they don't want to work and don't have girlfriends. On the way to a dream and hope to get everything at once guys are taken to perform the task of the local bandits.