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Worlds Apart

2008 1h 48m Drama List
Reviews 77% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings
Sara (Rosalinde Mynster) is a teenage girl who becomes disillusioned with her Jehovah's Witness upbringing when her parents split up after her father, Andreas (Jens Jørn Spottag), admits to cheating on her mother. Things get even more complicated when an attractive youth named Teis (Pilou Asbæk) pursues a romance with Sara. She soon falls in love with Teis, but he does not share her faith, which leads to tension between Sara, her family and the young man she wants to spend her life with. Read More Read Less

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Audience Member A gorgeous movie with religious indoctrination as the main villain. Its gripping, emotional and well acted. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent movie you can really feel the tension between the characters. It shows the Jehovah's Witness religion in a respectable manner and how the young girl is forced to choose between her religion, her family, and the boy she loves who is a non-believer. The actors a phenomenal. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent drama based on a true story of a Jehovah's Witness girl in Denmark, forced to choose between love and her family, by an authoritarian religious sect. Although there are some dissimilarities from my experience as a JW (such as the Congregation Overseer elder having a beard), I am sure that is mostly due to cultural differences and translation. On the whole, I feel this movie fairly accurately portrayed the JW lifestyle, and what can happen when the rules are broken. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member (*** 1/2): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] A well-acted and interesting film. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting and emotionally gripping, but lacks any solid ending. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member I totally relate to this film the same thing happened to me, except i wasnt a jehovahs witness Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Sara (Rosalinde Mynster) is a teenage girl who becomes disillusioned with her Jehovah's Witness upbringing when her parents split up after her father, Andreas (Jens Jørn Spottag), admits to cheating on her mother. Things get even more complicated when an attractive youth named Teis (Pilou Asbæk) pursues a romance with Sara. She soon falls in love with Teis, but he does not share her faith, which leads to tension between Sara, her family and the young man she wants to spend her life with.
Director
Niels Arden Oplev
Producer
Thomas Heinesen
Screenwriter
Steen Bille, Niels Arden Oplev
Production Co
Nordisk Film
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Danish
Release Date (DVD)
Jan 26, 2010
Runtime
1h 48m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital Surround EX