Pusher

1996
16
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

47K

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A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

Director
- Nicolas Winding Refn
Writers
- Jens Dahl
- Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

47K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,262

Director
- Nicolas Winding Refn
Writers
- Jens Dahl
- Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Videos2

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Pusher Trilogy

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Essential Guide to Mads Mikkelsen

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Essential Guide to Mads Mikkelsen

Photos75

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Storyline

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Trivia
In a famous TV interview with Nicolas Winding Refn and Kim Bodnia, a reporter asked about research to make the film so realistic, the one thing the Winding Refn and Bodnia had asked them not to ask about. The interview thus became very awkward. The interview appears on some DVDs.

Goofs
When Frank and Tony are in Frank's car, they pass a crossing just before Frank's phone rings. 20 seconds later, when Frank finishes his phone call, they turn right, at the same crossing they just passed.

Quotes
Tonny: I once ejaculated a girl in the face, and she wanted me to piss it off.
Frank: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ejaculated a girl in the face, and she wanted you to piss it off?
Tonny: Yeah.
Frank: [laughing] Pervert! That's fucking sick!
Tonny: It is not?
Frank: It's fucking sick, man. Who was she?
Tonny: Your mother.

Crazy credits
Til min onkel Peter Refn

Connections
Featured in On the Edge: Making 'Pusher' (2000)

Soundtracks
Pusher Theme
by The Prisoner Feat. Thomas Risell

User reviews86

Featured review

8/10

the reality of being a drug dealer

Although i've heard only good things about Pusher, it took me several years to pick it up. The result was surprisingly good.

The movie is shot almost as a documentary, which is well suited for the subject it depicts. Unlike hip-hop videos advertising gangster lifestyle, Pusher shows us the reality of a low level drug dealer. There is no glamor, but rather hard labor without strict working hours providing questionable financial gain.

Serbian gangsters are depicted rather realistically, presumably due to Slavko Labović'S experience as bouncer and mingling in the appropriate milieu.

Despite its independent funding, Pusher is rubbing shoulders with the best gangster movies of all times.