Product Details

• Actors: Theo Maassen, Pieter Embrechts, Karst Woudstra, Flip Filz, Menno van Beekum
• Directors: Pieter Kuijpers
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: BFS Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 17, 2009
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001LM64BA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #135,331 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

WINNER / Golden Film Award / Netherlands Film Festival

WINNER / Jury Award - Best Feature Film / Philadelphia Film Festival

OFFICIAL ENTRY / Seattle, Rotterdam and Munich International Film Festivals

When you reach the point of no return

Convicted for the brutal murder of his father, Johan (Theo Maassen) has been sentenced to a mental institution, where he spends his days insisting the crime was one of self-defense an attempt to save his sister's life. Determined to prove his innocence, Johan escapes and goes in search of his mother, whose testimony he feels is the only thing that will clear his name. With the police quickly closing in, Johan kidnaps a 13-year-old girl (Lisa Smit) and as both hostage and shield, she never truly knows if each breath will be her last.

Nothing to Lose is a pulse-pounding thriller, also known in the Netherlands by its Dutch title, TBS, which is a harsh prison sentence given to the most hardened criminals for the most monstrous crimes. TBS is forced rehabilitation, ending only when the patient is judged cured of insanity.

LANGUAGE: DUTCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Implausible plot, miserable story, decent acting, March 18, 2009

By	Steve Kuehl "SLV Video" (Ben Lomond, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read 12-15 different reviews in a brief fashion and ordered accordingly thinking I might get a sleeper for the few Dutch film fans I have in my store. Mistakenly, I did not do more research on this film regarding actual logistics and content.

The story relays the plight of a convicted killer who (shockingly) feels himself to be innocent, escapes incarceration to prove something, and through the course of events we have to decide if he might be the monster or the angel. During these completely implausible occurrences, he kidnaps (or befriends if you follow the filmmakers scary ideals) a 13 year old girl to use as a shield. While on this journey, the body count piles up and the apparent ineptitude of any police officer involved complicates the issue of immediate resolution. In reading more thorough reviews of the film, the various Euro police shown would most likely handled the situation presented with immediate professionalism (and closure), therefore never even allowing one of the worst media guffaws I have seen on film, to occur.

The acting is adequate, but the story quickly devolves into an uncomfortable mess (imagine Leon, but perverted) of unbelievable events. The ending is fit for people who seem to embrace those lame conclusions like they are the "edgy" way of making a fresh film. I totally appreciate the skills of the two main actors and they shine through here, but this catches me as one of those films like Hounddog, where people forget it was made as these two become more famous.