Dance with the Jackals
Four bungling friends chase easy money and stumble into a far more dangerous criminal adventure than they ever planned.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Mild
- irreverent
- witty
- rowdy
- casual movie night
- group watch
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Servet recruits Gökhan, Meatball Necmi, and Del Piero for a money transfer scheme that draws the group into dealings with real criminals.
The four friends pursue quick money together, with their loyalties and incompetence driving the escalating adventure.
The planned theft begins as a quick-buck operation but spirals into conflict with the so-called jackals.
The film is a Turkish-language ensemble comedy centered on locally coded nicknames, friendships, and improvised criminality.
Films like Dance with the Jackals, and why
The Hangover
crime comedy built around an amateur money-making scheme that spirals into trouble with professional criminals
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
irreverent ensemble humor, escalating criminal complications, and misguided friends pursuing quick rewards
We're the Millers
comic crime caper driven by bungling characters, fast reversals, and chaotic criminal entanglements
Movie Details
- Director
- Murat Şeker
- Release Date
- 2010-12-17
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 (60)
Cast
- Şevket Çoruh
- İlker Ayrık
- Timur Acar
- Murat Akkoyunlu
- Tuba Ünsal
- Kemal Uçar
- Didem Balçın
- Sümer Tilmaç
- Erdal Tosun
- Cengiz Küçükayvaz
Common questions
- What is Dance with the Jackals about?
- Four bungling friends chase easy money and stumble into a far more dangerous criminal adventure than they ever planned.
- What is Dance with the Jackals like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Dance with the Jackals as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Dance with the Jackals violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Dance with the Jackals as mild.
- Which films are like Dance with the Jackals?
- Films with a similar feel include The Hangover, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and We're the Millers.
- How long is Dance with the Jackals?
- Dance with the Jackals runs 102 minutes.
