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Layer Cake
2004
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly avoiding the violence and ugliness .. Read more
| Starring | Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins |
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| Director | Matthew Vaughn |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Thriller |
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Layer Cake
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly avoiding the violence and ugliness so many others in his trade fall prey to by following a strict personal code defined by discretion and clean detachment from the products he sells. Just as XXXX is poised to cash in and get out, Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham), the top layer of this particular underworld cake, hands down two tasks: find Eddie Temple's (Michael Gambon) drug-addicted daughter, and unload a mass of ecstasy stolen in Amsterdam by the sloppy, loud Duke (Jamie Foreman), who is exactly the type of wannabe gangster that XXXX has spent his career avoiding. Further complicating matters is Tammy (Sienna Miller), a sexy young blond who XXXX meets in a club and can't get off his mind.
| Starring | Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris, Tamer Hassan, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller |
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| Director | Matthew Vaughn |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 44 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, Hindi |
| Released | Production year: 2004 To Rent: DVD: 07 Mar 2005 Blu-ray: 19 Mar 2007 |
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Enjoyable fantasy of criminal life in a bright, neatly-plotted thriller; it is much concerned with the pecking order within the criminal world as various gangs jockey for prime position by attempting to outwit and out shoot one another.
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- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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The Brits can make excellent movies
This is a truly brilliant British movie. This film is way above anything to come out of British Cinema in the past 10 years. Forget Lock Stock and Snatch and ... read more »
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- 02 Mar 2005 at 12:05
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Samey Brit-Gangster Flick
Enjoyable enough but nothing innovative here and little in the characters or plot to inspire or intrigue. A lot of very good actors seemingly going through the ... read more »
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Avoid, avoid . . .
Derivation - Lock, Stock etc.
Acting - by graduates from the Timber School of Drama.
Advice - you have better things to do. - 1076394
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Superb gangster film, highly recommended
Superb british gangster film, good plot, excellent cast and well acted. Edgy film with good soundtrack. If you like Lock Stock etc you will like this. Highly ... read more »
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- 06 Dec 2011 at 22:22
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Leigh likes a laugh
- 15 Apr 2008
Director Mike Leigh likes a giggle as much as the next man - and to prove it his cheery disposition, he has hit out at the "rubbish" claims that he makes downbeat films. Speaking at the UK premiere of his latest offering, the upbeat Happy-Go-Lucky, Oscar-nominated Leigh said he had made "lots" of positive films, Digital Spy reports. The director, whose previous films include Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Life Is Sweet, said although many of themes in his work reflect... Read more
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As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ...
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Layer Cake
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ...
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