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2005

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When Rose (Helen Mirren), a female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer; she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey (Cuba Gooding Jr). Read more

Starring	Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Ferlito
Director	Lee Daniels
Genres	Drama, Thriller

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Shadowboxer

When Rose (Helen Mirren), a female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer; she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey (Cuba Gooding Jr).

Starring	Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Ferlito, Macy Gray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mo'nique
Director	Lee Daniels
Studio	HIGH FLIERS DISTRIBUTION LTD.
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2005 To Rent: DVD: 07 May 2007

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  Breaking conventional rules, Shadowboxer is dark, sexy, and very violent. On many levels the movie is uncomfortable to watch. All of the characters are flawed ... read more »
  
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  Utter garbage!!!!
  
  Poorly written,badly acted and so bad I turned it off after about 35-45 minutes!!.
  
  The world knows Cuba Goodings careers been riding the straight to ... read more »
  
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  Hmmmm what can I say?!
  
  Lots of shooting for the sake of it. The storyline tried to get you to be sympathetic with the characters (I think?!) but why, they killed people!
  
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  Yippee for the nude scenes!
  
  This was an enjoyable film and I especially enjoyed seeing Cuba's bum! Some scenes were a bit shocking but well done to Helen Mirren...hooray for the Brits... read more »
  
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Mirren's darts experience helped RED shooting scenes
- WENN Newsdesk
- 26 Sep 2011
Dame Helen Mirren scored a bullseye with her shooting skills on the set of action movie Red thanks to years of playing darts. The veteran actress portrayed a retired secret agent in the 2010 film and she worked with professionals to perfect her weapons handling on set. Mirren has now revealed her fondness for darts games helped her get to grips with the guns. She tells Jonathan Ross, "(It was my) first time (using guns). I did a film called Shadowboxer where I played an assassin, so I had... Read more
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