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Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves
Score: 9 / 10
Released: January 1, 2001
Director: Lars von Trier
Producer: Vibeke Windeløv
Studio: October Films
Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins
Genre: Drama
Length: 158 minutes

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Breaking the Waves Overview

Set in a community in Northern Scotland, Bess McNeil (Emily Watson) falls in love with an oil-rig worker, Jan (Stellan Skarsgård). When Jan has an accident that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, he asks that she continue her sexual relations with another man, and return to him with the details.

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