The Kindness of Strangers

Name: The Kindness of Strangers
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019-12-12
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Zoe Kazan, Andrea Riseborough, Tahar Rahim, Caleb Landry Jones, Jay Baruchel

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The Kindness of Strangers (2019)

Timing: 1:52 (112 min)

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Release date

2019-12-12

Country

United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Canada, United States, France, Sweden

Production

Ingenious Media, Film i Väst, SF Studios, Entertainment One, Téléfilm Canada, HanWay Films, Ontario Creates, Vertical Entertainment, ARTE, Apollo Media, D'Artagnan

Genre

Drama

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Director

Lone Scherfig

Actors

Zoe Kazan, Andrea Riseborough, Tahar Rahim, Caleb Landry Jones, Jay Baruchel, Bill Nighy, David Dencik, Jack Fulton, Will Bowes, Patricia McKenzie
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Scenario

Lone Scherfig

Producer

Malene Blenkov, Robin Cass, Tomas Eskilsson, Patrick Ryborn, Andrea Scarso, Tyson Bidner, Mark Beilby, Per Fly, Ole Christian Madsen, Peter Watson

Camera operator

Sebastian Blenkov

Composer

Andrew Lockington

Artist

Carol Spier

Audition

Deirdre Bowen

Editing

Cam McLauchlin
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Short description

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

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The film's title is a quote from Tennessee Williams' (1911-1983) play 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1947). Blanche says that she has “always depended on the kindness of strangers,” alluding to her past as a prostitute. The same words were used by British journalist Kate Adie as the title of her memoirs.