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The Kindness of Strangers (2019)
Directed by Lone Scherfig
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.
Length 112 minutes
Actors
Zoe Kazan | Andrea Riseborough | Tahar Rahim | Caleb Landry Jones | Jay Baruchel | Bill Nighy | David Dencik | Jack Fulton | Will Seatle Bowes | Patricia McKenzie | Masa Lizdek | Gugun Deep Singh | Esben Smed Jensen | JoAnn Nordstrom | Daniel Kash | Lisa Codrington | Kim Roberts | Rodrigo Fernandez- Stoll | Samantha Wan | Nicolaj Kopernikus | Martin Buch | Finlay Wojtak-Hissong | Catherine Fitch | Kola Krauze | Scott Edgecombe | Scott Anderson | Chris Baker | Miguel Anthony | Sally Shepard | Pat Thornton