Doppelgänger Releasing has announced the Blu-ray release of Norwegian writer/director Magnus Martens'
Jackpot (
Arme Riddere), starring Kyrre Hellum, Henrik Mestad, Mads Ousdal, Arthur Berning, Andreas Cappelen, Lena Kristin Ellingsen and Fridtjov Såheim.
Jackpot arrives on Blu-ray on August 26th.
Synopsis: In a small Norwegian town near the Swedish border, a bloody shootout leaves eight people dead in an adult book shop. Buried alive under a large woman is bloodied and dazed Christmas tree factory supervisor Oscar (Kyrre Hellum), who must explain the scenario to a hard-boiled police inspector (Henrik Mestad). In Oscar's version of events—which involve everything from a missing corpse, a tanning bed, a wood chipper, a sex-shop blow-up doll, a nail gun, a pigsty and Monopoly money—he joins up with a trio of dangerous ex-con colleagues at the factory and wins the jackpot prize in a soccer betting pool. But when his co-workers get into a vicious battle over how to divide the money, Oscar is dragged along for a violent, gory and body-strewn ride.
Featuring an inspiringly structured story and screenplay that leapfrogs between the police station interrogation room and the violently outlandish events that brought Oscar there,
Jackpot is filled with the kind of serpentine plot twists, double-crosses, betrayals, brutal action interludes and over-the-top escapades that have defined such audience favorites as
Reservoir Dogs,
The Usual Suspects,
Fargo,
Pulp Fiction and
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Special features include a "Behind the Scenes of
Jackpot" featurette.