The Hunt (2012)

The Hunt rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.3/10· 397K votes

Rotten Tomatoes92%

Metacritic77%

TMDb8.094/10· 5K votes

With 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.3/10 on IMDb and 77/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Hunt

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Cast of The Hunt

• 

  Mads Mikkelsen

  as Lucas

• 

  Thomas Bo Larsen

  as Theo

• 

  Annika

  as Klara

• 

  Lasse Fogelstrøm

  as Marcus

• 

  Susse Wold

  as Grethe

• 

  Anne Louise Hassing

  as Agnes

• 

  Lars Ranthe

  as Bruun

• 

  Alexandra Rapaport

  as Nadja

• 

  Sebastian Bull Sarning

  as Torsten

• S

  Steen Ordell Guldbrandsen

  as Lars T

• 

  Daniel Engstrup

  as Johan

• 

  Troels Thorsen

  as Bent

The Hunt facts

Original title

Jagten

Budget

$3.8M

Box office

$18.3M

Our take on The Hunt

Thomas Vinterberg's tense Danish drama follows a lonely kindergarten teacher, already strained by a custody battle over his son, whose life is quietly improving until a small, innocent lie from a child ignites a devastating accusation. What follows is an unbearably taut study of how suspicion spreads through a close community, how quickly trust curdles into mob certainty, and how hard it is to prove innocence once fear takes hold. Restrained and precise, it draws its dread from ordinary faces and everyday settings rather than melodrama. Ideal for viewers who value serious, morally searching cinema and can withstand real discomfort; not a film for relaxation, but a deeply affecting, unforgettable one.