Sex, Drugs & Taxation

Sex, Drugs & Taxation

Directed by Christoffer Boe

Produced by AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen, Nordisk Film Denmark

2013110 min6.1 / 10

A spirited, irreverent biographical romp through the lives of two charismatic outsiders whose friendship and hedonistic defiance of convention drive a warm, playful narrative across decades of scandal and success.

Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.

Questions people ask

  • Is Sex, Drugs & Taxation violent? Not especially. Less violent than 74% of films.

  • Is Sex, Drugs & Taxation easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Is Sex, Drugs & Taxation sad? Not especially. Less sad than 67% of films.

  • Is Sex, Drugs & Taxation scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Does Sex, Drugs & Taxation end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 65% of films.

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