Nightwatch Page #2

Synopsis: A law student takes a job as the night-watchman in a morgue, thinking that he will have much time to study, with his biggest problem being his paranoia in this scary setting. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and the student ends up getting mixed up with one of the murders, becoming a suspect.
Director(s): Ole Bornedal
Production: Miramax
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
1997
101 min
453 Views


You can test it by holding your

hand up to your mouth and breathe.

Am I right?

Oh, Jesus! You're right.

Goes with the territory.

Nothing you can do about it.

These are the staff files.

We're all in here somewhere.

Dead ones, over there.

Staff, over here.

Meaningless.

Here's your duty roster.

You'll come on at eight,

be relieved at four.

- Is that the alarm from...?

- It'll never happen.

Have you got a radio?

- Actually, I'm gonna study.

- Get a radio.

- Like I said, I'll get a radio.

- Good.

Who is that picture of?

I don't know. It's always been there.

Oh, one more thing.

There's nothing

to be afraid of, but...

I think it'd be

a good thing to have.

And then the radio...

It'd be a good idea

to buy yourself a radio.

OK.

You have a choice

of seeing two movies.

One, 90 action-packed minutes

of two heroes spending time together

having these incredible adventures.

The other movie has 45 minutes of

one hero having incredible adventures

and the other 45 minutes

is a guy sitting at a desk,

reading a book, OK?

Which one do you go see?

Who's playing the guy

reading the book?

There is definitely

loss of consortium,

but how about mental anguish?

- What happened to us?

- What?

I can't breathe in here.

Why the f*** are we here?

- Getting older.

- We're dying.

- Same thing.

- No, no, no.

You know this movie

I was talking about?

The two heroes start

challenging each other.

- Really?

- Yes. The one who backs down loses.

Why would they want to do that?

Because they're dying

and they wanna play

before they end up in bed

with the establishment.

OK, so what are the stakes?

If I lose, I marry Marie.

You lose, you marry Katherine.

What?

- Why?

- It's some fun!

You are totally insane.

No, I'm not.

Sh*t.

Sh*t, the lights.

Weren't you afraid?

No. No. And then I saw these tubs.

There was something in them.

Spare parts.

I saw shadows or something.

I don't know.

That's really sick.

You're dead. What's it matter

what someone does to you?

I just think it's sick, OK?

I have to go to the bathroom.

Yeah, I'll go with you.

So, listen.

Yesterday,

I'm down in Camden near Hyde.

I see this

very attractive-looking girl

standing at a bus stop, right?

But I notice she doesn't get

on any of the buses.

So?

Come on, counsellor.

She was a prostitute.

Seventeen years old. Joyce.

How do you know all that?

Excuse me, those are my quarters.

I got the next game.

- Tough sh*t.

- All right, I'll get the manager.

I'm gonna go get Satan.

- It's OK.

- Sure?

Yeah.

Let us just play one game

then you guys can play, all right?

Why you look so scared?

I'm just kidding. You all right?

What did you do to him?

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Ole Bornedal

Ole Bornedal (born 26 May 1959) is a Danish film director, actor and producer.Bornedal was born in Nørresundby, Denmark. He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994), a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes. He also directed an English language remake (Nightwatch) in 1997, starring Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette. In 2002, he directed I Am Dina. Other Danish films include The Substitute (2007), Just Another Love Story (2007), and Deliver Us from Evil. In 2012, he directed the English-language film The Possession. He was one of the producers of Mimic. In 2014 he wrote and directed the epic historical drama 1864, the most expensive Danish TV series in history, chronicling the Second Schleswig War through the story of two brothers.He is married to the Danish actress, Helle Fagralid, and has three children. more…

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