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Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Produced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anthony Bregman, and Stefanie Azpiazu
Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash Inspired by the film Force Majeure Ruben Östlund
With: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Miranda Otto, Zoe Chao, Zach Woods, Julian Grey, Kristofer Hivju, Ammon Jacob Ford, and Giulio Berruti
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Editing: Pamela Martin and David Rennie
Music: Volker Bertelmann
Runtime: 86 min
Release Date: 14 February 2020
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
Like so many American remakes of great foreign films, this retelling of Ruben Östlund’s masterful Force Majeure (about marital tensions that come to a head during a family ski vacation in the Alps) focuses on the most obvious aspects of its source and thus misses the subtleties that made the original so effective