Breakout

Jan 18, 2007

1h 37m

★ 5.2

Overview

A film about kids with little else to offer apart from a well honed body, an overabundance of hormones and a high from their last line. Teenagers Nia and Pulpo hang out at the disco where Nia has sex with a girl he meets there, Foxy. On the way home, Nia and Pulpo are attacked by Spirit, Foxy’s ex. Pulpo is badly beaten up but the police intervene, and Nia ends up in a youth detention centre. He makes plans to escape in order to wreck revenge on Spirit, an eye for an eye, and part of his plan includes meeting Nicole, an attractive young lawyer.

Genres

Music

Drama

Production Companies

Zodiac Pictures

Impuls Home Entertainment AG

SRF

Breakout Trailers

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Cast

Nicole

Melanie Winiger

Marco Nia

Nils Althaus

Spirit

Stress

Schleier

Roeland Wiesnekker

Salis

Hanspeter Müller

Heinrich

Aaron Arens

Silenzio

Joel Basman

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