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Adam's Apples
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1732
- IMDb #759
- Rotten Tomatoes #1645
- Metacritic #2569
- Letterboxd #1163
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2769
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #572
- Metacritic Critics #3375
- Metacritic Audience #1135
- Criticker #452
- Kinopoisk #904
- AlloCiné #1634
- Trakt #1130
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 51, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90. Critics average 60, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A neo-Nazi is sentenced to community service at a remote country church under the supervision of an eternally optimistic priest. The priest challenges him to pick a goal and have faith, so the cynical criminal chooses to bake an apple cake, believing the priest's prized apple tree is cursed. A bizarre battle of wills ensues between faith and cynicism.
Details
- Director
- Anders Thomas Jensen
- Writers
- Anders Thomas Jensen, Rikke Deepthi Hansen
- Studio
- M&M Productions
- Released
- 15 April 2005
- Country
- Denmark, Germany
- Language
- Danish
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.7M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →5 wins from 9 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2006 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Denmark | Nominee |
| 19th European Film Awards 2006 | Best European Film | Anders Thomas Jensen | Nominee |
| Robert Award 2006 | Best Visual Effects | Lars Kolding Andersen | Winner |
| Robert Award 2006 | Best Visual Effects | Peter Hjorth | Winner |
| Robert Award 2006 | Best Visual Effects | Hummer Høimark | Winner |
| Robert Award 2006 | Best Danish Film | Winner | |
| Robert Award 2006 | Best Screenplay | Anders Thomas Jensen | Winner |
| 18th European Film Awards 2005 | Best Screenwriter | Anders Thomas Jensen | Nominee |
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9 awards — Adam's Apples
×| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Denmark | Nominee |
| Best Danish Film | Winner | |
| Best Screenplay | Anders Thomas Jensen | Winner |
| Best Visual Effects | Lars Kolding Andersen | Winner |
| Best Visual Effects | Peter Hjorth | Winner |
| Best Visual Effects | Hummer Høimark | Winner |
| Best Screenwriter | Anders Thomas Jensen | Nominee |
| Best European Film | Anders Thomas Jensen | Nominee |
| Bodil Awards | Nominee |