A 38-year-old criminal starts a band to impress his 8-year-old son. What could go wrong?
BIG PLANS follows the petty and irresponsible crook Willy, who has a massive fondness for music. Though he's 38 years of age he will not give up his lifelong dream of becoming a famous musician. When he gets paroled he therefore decides to revive his old band to prove to his eight-year-old son, Mikkel, that he isn't the failure everyone thinks he is.
Acting
Thomas Bo Larsen commits fully to Willy's pathetic charm.
Direction
Jesper W. Nielsen finds warmth in Scandinavian miserablism.
Director
Jesper W. Nielsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a rare Danish box office bomb in 2005, possibly because audiences had already seen enough of Thomas Bo Larsen's loser characters after The Celebration and The Hunt.
The film quietly satirizes Denmark's generous social welfare system — Willy keeps failing upward with zero consequences, which is either the point or a bug.
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