Movie
The Kindness of Strangers
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2019-12-12
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- HanWay Films, Ingenious Media, Apollo Media, Entertainment One, Vertical, SF Studios, D'Artagnan, Film i Väst, ARTE, Téléfilm Canada, Ontario Creates
- Country
- United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Canada, United States of America, France, Sweden
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Zoe Kazan as Clara
- Andrea Riseborough as Alice
- Tahar Rahim as Marc
- Caleb Landry Jones as Jeff
- Jay Baruchel as John Peter
- Bill Nighy as Timofey
- David Dencik as Lars
- Jack Fulton as Anthony
- Will Bowes as Hamilton
- Patricia McKenzie as Claire
- Masa Lizdek as Mary
- Gugun Deep Singh as Singh
Crew
- Lone Scherfig - Director
- Lone Scherfig - Writer
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