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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404982505
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404982507
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 15533
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Description:
From Academy Award-winning director Anders Thomas Jensen and in the vein of 'Delicatessen' and 'Eating Raoul,' 'The Green Butchers' brings you the dynamic duo of Bjarne and Svend, two pals who decide to open their own butcher shop. Grappling with a competitive market and an evil ex-boss, the two come up with a special dish that suddenly has everyone flocking to their counter and dying for more. As business heats up however, so does the competition and suddenly everyone is asking about Bjarne and Svend's 'special ingredients.'
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An Absolute Gem!!!
I picked up this movie at a local pawn shop and had low expectations. Was I ever wrong! This is an absolute gem of a movie. Certainly my new favorite. Other reviewers have waxed eloquent on the virtues contained therein and additional commentary would be superfluous. Just let me say that this movie is a "must see". If you can watch this movie and not be entertained I feel for you. For those of you skittish about watching foreign films this movie will cure you of you phobia. Enjoy!
Rating:  - Marinade's Just Right
This is quite a twister, even granted its revisiting the familiar territory of, Delicatessen. The straighteness, the dourness of these Danes give it an extra dryness that had me in fits. Everything this team of actors and director touches is worthy of a visit...Adam's Apple, Open Heart etc. The scripts are tight and convoluted, the morphing of real and surreal has a compelling edge.The editing is tight. And you'll not see better acting anywhere as I write.
Rating: - Sweeney Todd with a happy ending
I saw this movie on a lark with some friends of mine. We were bored, were at the local video store when they had nothing worth watching, saw that it was a Dutch comedy about cannibalism and thought, "Oh, yeah, we've GOT to see this." We had no expectations of this film. Turns out we picked a true gem. One of the things about this film is that it's funny when you don't expect it to be, No warning, just BAM! It's funny all of a sudden!
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Rating: - The Green Butchers
I love it when a skilled group of actors takes an absurdly funny situation and plays it absolutely straight and serious, without mugging for the camera, without pausing so you can laugh, and most certainly without a laugh track. Dark humor? I suppose, since it has murder and stuff. Svend and Bjarne open a butcher shop in this film, which the cover blurb calls "deceptively simple and wickedly funny." Yeah, that's what it is. It's Danish, the director has a strong Academy Award resume, and I don't care. ... Read More
Rating:  - Finger lickin good feelgood comedy
You could call "The Green Butchers" a cross between "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and an episode of "Three's Company" in that, as someone from the Old Country would say, this is a film built around a bloody misunderstanding. Going into it any further would, to pun, spoil the fun. "Butchers" doesn't exactly chart new territory -- "Eating Raoul," and later, "Delicatessen" took care of that (you could actually go farther back, to "Soylent Green," in which people as food is used to elicit horror, but one has only ... Read More
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