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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some of the drinking hijinks among the students may come off as improbable to some viewers. They are, however, based on the director's daughter's anecdotes of her own drinking escapades and some of the students featured in these scenes are her own classmates. Those who have attended a Danish gymnasium will likely be able to corroborate the authentic, if heightened, nature of these scenes.
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** One teacher uses it on a student who is having a nervous breakdown due to having to repeat a year in school unless he passes an exam. The teacher takes him aside and have him drink to the point of going over the 0.05% point like the teachers.
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** One teacher uses it on a student who is having a nervous breakdown due to having to repeat a year in school unless he passes an exam. The teacher takes him aside and have him drink to the point of going over the 0.05% point like the teachers. [[spoiler: It works]].
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* TriumphantReprise: The first piece of music heard in the film is the students singing the verse of "What a life" by Scarlet Pleasure, before the real song takes over. The song is abruptly cut by the opening credits, but is played in full during climatic dance number.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some of the drinking hijinks among the students may come off as improbable to some viewers. They are, however, based on the director's daughter's anecdotes of her own drinking escapades and some of the students featured in these scenes are her own classmates. Those who have attended a Danish gymnasium will likely be able to corroborate the authentic, [[UpToEleven if heightened]], nature of these scenes.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some of the drinking hijinks among the students may come off as improbable to some viewers. They are, however, based on the director's daughter's anecdotes of her own drinking escapades and some of the students featured in these scenes are her own classmates. Those who have attended a Danish gymnasium will likely be able to corroborate the authentic, [[UpToEleven if heightened]], heightened, nature of these scenes.
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Four middle-aged teachers and colleagues at a high school in Copenhagen, Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Millang), are all struggling with frustration and boredom and feelings of being trapped in their jobs and private lives. When they happen upon of the works of a Norwegian psychiatrist who claims that the average human feels more comfortable and happy with a long-term blood alcohol content of 0.05%, they decide to test out his theory through an experiment of maintaining constant intoxication throughout the workday in an effort to improve their lives.
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Four middle-aged teachers and colleagues at a high school in Copenhagen, Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Millang), are all struggling with frustration and boredom and feelings of being trapped in their jobs and private lives. When they happen upon of the works of a Norwegian psychiatrist who claims that the average human feels more comfortable and happy with a long-term blood alcohol content of 0.05%, they decide to test out his theory through an experiment of maintaining constant intoxication throughout the workday in an effort to improve their lives.
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* LiquidCourage: One of the primary effects the teachers are going for is using alcohol to make them more self-confident. It actually works for a while.
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* LiquidCourage: LiquidCourage:
** One of the primary effects the teachers are going for is using alcohol to make them more self-confident. It actually works for a while.
** One of the primary effects the teachers are going for is using alcohol to make them more self-confident. It actually works for a while.
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** One teacher uses it on a student who is having a nervous breakdown due to having to repeat a year in school unless he passes an exam. The teacher takes him aside and have him drink to the point of going over the 0.05% point like the teachers.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Tommy becomes this to "Specs" who is implied to be bullied or at least left out by the other kids. Tommy coaches him to be an adept soccer player which wins "Specs" the respect of his peers and Tommy the respect of the team. [[spoiler:Notably "Specs inspired the other children to sing the danish national anthem at Tommy's funeral"]].
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* FreezeFrameEnding: The film ends with a freeze-frame on Martin as he's jumping off the pier in the middle of a drunken dance number.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some of the drinking hijinks among the students may come off as improbable to some viewers. They are, however, based on the director's daughter's anecdotes of her own drinking escapades and some of the students featured in these scenes are her own classmates. Those who have attended a Danish gymnasium will likely be able to corroborate the authentic, [[UpToEleven if heightened]], nature of these scenes.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The seemingly improbable drinking hijinks among the students are based on the director's daughter's anecdotes of her own drinking escapades. The students featured in these scenes are her own classmates.
** Whether or not the student drinking comes off as this trope probably depends on [[ValuesDissonance the viewer's cultural background,]] as they are grounded very firmly in contemporary Danish youth culture.
** Whether or not the student drinking comes off as this trope probably depends on [[ValuesDissonance the viewer's cultural background,]] as they are grounded very firmly in contemporary Danish youth culture.
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** Whether or not the student drinking comes off as this trope probably depends on the [[ValuesDissonance viewer's cultural background,]] as they are grounded very firmly in contemporary Danish youth culture.
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** Whether or not the student drinking comes off as this trope probably depends on the [[ValuesDissonance the viewer's cultural background,]] as they are grounded very firmly in contemporary Danish youth culture.
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** Whether or not the student drinking comes off as this trope probably depends on the [[ValuesDissonance viewer's cultural background,]] as they are grounded very firmly in contemporary Danish youth culture.
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* VisualTitleDrop: In Danish, the word "Druk" can be seen on the banner hanging on the truck that the graduates rode to the pier, in the last scene.
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* DeskSweepOfRage: Martin sweeps all the dinner fixings off the table after his wife admits that she cheated on him. Martin being drunk helped.
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* TitleDrop: In English at least, as one of the gang says "here's another round" as they set out to reach "maximum BAC".
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: It's left ambiguous if Tommy stumbled off his boat by accident or if he deliberately drowned himself.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It's left ambiguous if Tommy stumbled off his boat by accident or if he deliberately drowned himself.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: All members of the group know full well that their experiment may very likely result in alcoholism. In the end though, only Tommy succumbs.
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* TheAlcoholic: All members of the group know full well that their experiment may very likely result in alcoholism. In the end though, only Tommy succumbs. It's somewhat questionable if they weren't already alcoholics to begin with, given how enthusiastic they were about advancing from drinking quite a bit casually to drinking constantly in their day-to-day lives.
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* CoolTeacher: After getting drunk, the four teachers each become more engaged and confident. Martin in particular becomes cool to this students.
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* CoolTeacher: After getting drunk, the four teachers each become more engaged and confident. Martin in particular becomes cool to this his students.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It's left ambiguous if Tommy stumbled off his boat by accident or if he deliberately drowned himself.]]
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Four middle-aged teachers and colleagues at a high school in Copenhagen, Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Millang), are all struggling with frustration and boredom and feelings of being trapped in their jobs and private lives. When they happen upon of the works of a Norwegian psychiatrist who claims that the average human feels more comfortable and happy with a long-term level of a blood alcohol content of 0.05%, they decide to test out his theory through an experiment of maintaining constant intoxication throughout the workday in an effort to improve their lives.
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* TheAlcoholic: All members of the group know full well that their experiment may result in alcoholism. Only Tommy succumbs.
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Four middle-aged teachers and colleagues at a high school in Copenhagen, Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Millang), are all struggling with frustration and boredom and feelings of being trapped in their jobs and private lives. When they happen upon of the works of a Norwegian psychiatrist who claims that the average human feels more comfortable and happy with a long-term level of a blood alcohol content of 0.05%, they decide to test out his theory through an experiment of maintaining constant intoxication throughout the workday in an effort to improve their lives.
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* CallBack: Martin holds Anika's hand while telling her that they have many years to be together. Early in the film, he referenced that their plan was to stay together until they were old and hold hands while they died.
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''Another Round'' (Danish: ''Druk'', lit. "Drinking binge") is a 2020 Danish {{dramedy}} co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and starring Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe.
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''Another Round'' (Danish: ''Druk'', lit. "Drinking binge") is a 2020 Danish {{dramedy}} co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, Creator/ThomasVinterberg, and starring Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe.
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''Another Round'' (Danish: ''Druk'', lit. "Drinking binge") is a 2020 Danish dramedy co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and starring Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe.
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''Another Round'' (Danish: ''Druk'', lit. "Drinking binge") is a 2020 Danish dramedy {{dramedy}} co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and starring Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe.
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Finding that they indeed become more joyful and relaxed in general from being constantly tipsy, the four friends agree to gradually take their experiment further and further, and test the limits of continuous and increasingly excessive alcohol consumption's effects on the human body and psyche...
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Finding that they indeed become more joyful and relaxed in general from being constantly tipsy, the four friends agree to gradually take push their experiment further and further, and test testing the limits effects of continuous and increasingly excessive alcohol consumption's effects consumption on the human body and psyche...psyche.
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''Another Round'' is a 2020 Danish dramedy co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It stars Creator/MadsMikkelsen as one of four middle-aged high school teachers who conduct an experiment of maintaining a level of intoxication throughout the workday in an effort to improve their lives.
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''Another Round'' (Danish: ''Druk'', lit. "Drinking binge") is a 2020 Danish dramedy co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It stars Creator/MadsMikkelsen as one of Vinterberg, and starring Creator/MadsMikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe.
The four middle-aged teachers and collages at a high schoolteachers in Copenhagen, Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Millang), are all struggling with frustration and boredom and feelings of being trapped in their jobs and private lives. When the four friends happens upon of the works of a Norwegian psychiatrist who conduct claims that the average human feels more comfortable and happy with a long-term level of blood alcohol content of 0.050, they decide to test out his theory through an experiment of maintaining a level of constant intoxication throughout the workday in an effort to improve their lives.
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* WildTeenParty: The film begins with a drinking game among the students of the school: running around the lake while drinking an entire case of beer. It's a town tradition.
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* WildTeenParty: The film begins with a drinking game among the students of the school: running around the lake while drinking an entire case of beer. It's a town tradition.tradition.
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* ForScience: The teachers use the excuse of writing an academic paper about their "experiment."
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: When the teachers eventually start drinking to excess, they get wild at a local pub.
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** When the drunk teens hit the town, they engage in a wide range of drunken shenanigans, including handcuffing a subway guard to a handrail.
** When the teachers eventually start drinking to excess, they get wild at a local
** When the drunk teens hit the town, they engage in a wide range of drunken shenanigans, including handcuffing a subway guard to a handrail.
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* {{Dedication}}: The film is dedicated in the closing credits to "Ida," the director's daughter, who was killed in an auto accident during filming at the age of 19. Her drinking escapades partially inspired the film, and her classmates played some of the students.
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''Another Round'' is a 2020 Danish dramedy co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It stars Creator/MadsMikkelsen as one of four middle-aged high school teachers who conduct an experiment of maintaining a level of intoxication throughout the workday in an effort to improve their lives.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: When the teachers eventually start drinking to excess, they get wild at a local pub.
* TheAlcoholic: All members of the group know full well that their experiment may result in alcoholism. Only Tommy succumbs.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The seemingly improbable drinking hijinks among the students are based on the director's daughter's anecdotes of her own drinking escapades. The students featured in these scenes are her own classmates.
* ApatheticTeacher: All four teachers are established to be bored and uninspired in their classes, resulting in bored and uninspired students.
* BingeMontage: The four teachers go through several of these. All but the last are wild and joyful. The last one is extremely unpleasant, causing all of them to realize that it's time to pull the plug.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tommy has died, but the three remaining teachers are in a better place. Martin dances with joy that his wife wants to get back together, though he gets drunk in the process and throws himself into sea]].
* CoolTeacher: After getting drunk, the four teachers each become more engaged and confident. Martin in particular becomes cool to this students.
* DescentIntoAddiction: Tommy goes from casual drinker to alcoholic over the course of the film.
* DrinkingGame: A group drinking competition among the students is a town tradition.
* DrinkingOnDuty: The teachers' experiment has them ''only'' drink while on duty. It's hard for them to mask the fact that they're drinking in school, causing a lot of problems.
* DrunkenSong: The teachers lead a singalong at the pub when they're drinking to excess.
* FiredTeacher: Tommy gets fired for getting drunk on the job.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tommy mentions early that he can't swim.
* {{Irony}}: The teachers note how odd it is for the gym teacher to be the one among them who can't swim. He's also the one who owns a boat.
* LiquidCourage: One of the primary effects the teachers are going for is using alcohol to make them more self-confident. It actually works for a while.
* MarketBasedTitle: The Danish name of the film is ''Druk'', which refers to binge drinking.
* NerdGlasses: The runt of the soccer team wears glasses and is known only as "Specs."
* SentimentalDrunk: At low doses, all four teachers become nicer to those around them, or at least more ''effective'' at being nice.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The last thing we see of Tommy's dog is it wandering around the deck of his abandoned boat]].
* WildTeenParty: The film begins with a drinking game among the students of the school: running around the lake while drinking an entire case of beer. It's a town tradition.
!!Tropes:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: When the teachers eventually start drinking to excess, they get wild at a local pub.
* TheAlcoholic: All members of the group know full well that their experiment may result in alcoholism. Only Tommy succumbs.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The seemingly improbable drinking hijinks among the students are based on the director's daughter's anecdotes of her own drinking escapades. The students featured in these scenes are her own classmates.
* ApatheticTeacher: All four teachers are established to be bored and uninspired in their classes, resulting in bored and uninspired students.
* BingeMontage: The four teachers go through several of these. All but the last are wild and joyful. The last one is extremely unpleasant, causing all of them to realize that it's time to pull the plug.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tommy has died, but the three remaining teachers are in a better place. Martin dances with joy that his wife wants to get back together, though he gets drunk in the process and throws himself into sea]].
* CoolTeacher: After getting drunk, the four teachers each become more engaged and confident. Martin in particular becomes cool to this students.
* DescentIntoAddiction: Tommy goes from casual drinker to alcoholic over the course of the film.
* DrinkingGame: A group drinking competition among the students is a town tradition.
* DrinkingOnDuty: The teachers' experiment has them ''only'' drink while on duty. It's hard for them to mask the fact that they're drinking in school, causing a lot of problems.
* DrunkenSong: The teachers lead a singalong at the pub when they're drinking to excess.
* FiredTeacher: Tommy gets fired for getting drunk on the job.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tommy mentions early that he can't swim.
* {{Irony}}: The teachers note how odd it is for the gym teacher to be the one among them who can't swim. He's also the one who owns a boat.
* LiquidCourage: One of the primary effects the teachers are going for is using alcohol to make them more self-confident. It actually works for a while.
* MarketBasedTitle: The Danish name of the film is ''Druk'', which refers to binge drinking.
* NerdGlasses: The runt of the soccer team wears glasses and is known only as "Specs."
* SentimentalDrunk: At low doses, all four teachers become nicer to those around them, or at least more ''effective'' at being nice.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The last thing we see of Tommy's dog is it wandering around the deck of his abandoned boat]].
* WildTeenParty: The film begins with a drinking game among the students of the school: running around the lake while drinking an entire case of beer. It's a town tradition.
