The Baker
2008
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for the first time in his career, he is forced to escape the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. He hides out in a remote rural village where the locals mistake him for the new baker. Forced to bake bread and cakes to maintain his cover, .. Read more
| Starring | Damien Lewis, Kate Ashfield, Michael Gambon |
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| Director | Gareth Lewis |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Baker
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for the first time in his career, he is forced to escape the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. He hides out in a remote rural village where the locals mistake him for the new baker. Forced to bake bread and cakes to maintain his cover, sparks start to fly with the beautiful local vet. He decides to start a legitimate new life as the village baker but with his past about to catch up with him, Milo soon discovers that you can¿t always have your cake and eat it.
| Starring | Damien Lewis, Kate Ashfield, Michael Gambon |
|---|---|
| Director | Gareth Lewis |
| Studio | 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 34 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 03 Mar 2008 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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Playing like a would-be comic version of Ill Sleep When Im Dead, this gently likeable, undemanding and... read more on Time Out
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
More cake vicar?
This is not a rom com, not a black comedy and certainly not a thriller. It's an out and out quirky British comedy. Hitman (Damien Lewis) tires of his life and seeks to get away from it all in a small Welsh village where, in an attempt to blend in, he becomes a baker. Unfortunately for him, local village half-wit, with a passion for blowing up sheep using home-made fertiliser bombs, stumbles upon Lewis' real 'identity' . This soon becomes known amongst the predominantly male occupants of the village who thinking he is merely undercover, seek his services to rid themselves of overbearing wives and annoying neighbours - well you would wouldn't you!
Lewis has an encounter early on with local vet (Kate Ashfield) which adds a bit of romance to proceedings - including passion frenzy involving a variety of cake making ingredients - beats whipping up a Victoria sponge!
This film has no pretensions about setting itself in any genre - it's just 90 mins of easy to watch, fun. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Unassuming
A rare thing these days; a film that is shorter than it could be. The Baker is quiet, gentle and extremely funny. The humour is played completely dead pan which makes it even funnier. The first loaves that the Baker makes had me in stitches. The only disappointment is that an extra half hour on the running time would allow for a bit more development in the plot, but better to have a film that is a little too short, than one that is over long as a lot of recent blockbusters are.
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