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The Hunt

2012 · Movie · 111 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer92%as of 2024-10-27
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.8/10as of 2021-10-10
  • Metacritic77/100as of 2025-08-30

What it is

The Hunt is a 2012 Danish psychological drama film co-written, produced and directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelsen. Set in a small Danish village around Christmas, the film follows a man named Lucas, a divorced kindergarten teacher who becomes the target of mass hysteria after being accused of sexually abusing a child in his class.

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Genres
Drama
Original language

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