The Eighteenth

*6.5

Status

Released

Production

Zentropa Entertainments

Aired

1996-05-24

The Eighteenth

Set on May 18, 1993—the day on which Denmark voted to join the European Union, just a few months after they'd voted not to do so—the film follows eight or so disparate Danes (an escaped mental patient, a newly-famous singer, a business executive, and their assorted families and cohorts) as they unwittingly alter one another's lives, for better and for worse.