The Bench
2000 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 4,637 VOTES · DIR. Per Fly
Overview
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.
Dialogue Timeline — 637 lines
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00:00:50 - This is not a playground, huh? - Fuck you, you drunk fool!
00:04:19 Okay. Bye. It was Jens.
00:07:40 Kim Hansen.
00:10:21 Put down that bag!
00:13:43 I'll show you.
00:16:26 That we can get for... nada! Can you see it?
00:22:03 That's because she's fuckin' afraid of getting beaten up.
00:24:50 We shoot to each other.
00:27:15 - What the hell. That's a changer. - I'm just a goalkeeper.
00:29:47 You can't even afford a bus-card, and then you talk about buying a car.
00:35:55 Everything out here looks the same.
00:39:05 It's a bike.
00:41:14 - I want my bike! - Jonas, not now.
00:44:30 Stop it, Jonas!
00:46:36 Vuf, uf, vuf.
00:50:08 I doubt. And then she is a bashing blonde.
00:53:10 Shouldn't we pack the car and go to southern France?
01:01:37 She is going to X-ray now, but we can't get the boy away from her.
01:04:15 Jonas is not going back to Lars.
01:06:56 Open god damn it!
01:11:10 Have you no idea, where he went?
01:14:55 - Are you holding tight, Kaj? - You need to get down and stand here.
01:18:39 - Kaj can't beat a fly out of course. - That we may just explain the Police.
01:22:20 You can just live in my flat, then...