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Layer Cake (2004) -- A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.
Layer Cake (2004) -- A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.

Overview

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Director:
Matthew Vaughn
Writers:
J.J. Connolly (screenplay)
J.J. Connolly (novel)
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Release Date:
1 October 2004 (UK) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 8 nominations more
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(55 articles)
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User Comments:
Chameleon Craig Does a Steve McQueen in Brutal But Sleek Thriller more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Daniel Craig ... XXXX
Tom Hardy ... Clarkie
Jamie Foreman ... Duke
Sally Hawkins ... Slasher
Burn Gorman ... Gazza
Brinley Green ... Nobby

George Harris ... Morty

Tamer Hassan ... Terry

Colm Meaney ... Gene
Marcel Iures ... Slavo
Francis Magee ... Paul the Boatman
Dimitri Andreas ... Angelo
Kenneth Cranham ... Jimmy Price
Garry Tubbs ... Brian
Nathalie Lunghi ... Charlie
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
L4yer Cake (Ireland: English title) (DVD box title) (UK) (DVD box title) (USA) (DVD box title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong brutal violence, sexuality, nudity, pervasive language and drug use.
Runtime:
105 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English | Romanian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS (US prints) | DTS

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Trivia:
Marcel Iures plays a Serbian drug dealer (Slavo) yet, being a Romanian actor, he speaks Romanian with his crew. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When XXXX and Gene are drinking at Gene's apartment, the whiskey bottles change positions between shots. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
XXXX: When I was born, the world was a far simpler place. It was all just cops and robbers.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Top Gear: (2006-06-04)" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Hayling more

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44 out of 55 people found the following comment useful:-
Chameleon Craig Does a Steve McQueen in Brutal But Sleek Thriller, 16 July 2005
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Author: Dorian Tenore-Bartilucci (dtb) from Whitehall, PA

After an art house release everywhere else in the civilized world, LAYER CAKE (LC) unexpectedly premiered in our area, the Lehigh Valley, at the $4 theater in Easton (this joint started as a second-run theater, but it's been getting some acclaimed imports and indies lately, too. Somebody there is a good programmer!). This British import, adapted by J.J. Connolly from his novel, is a taut crime drama that moves with the sleek menace of a tiger. Imagine THE BIG SLEEP with an ever-so-slightly more coherent plot and, as its protagonist, a prosperous, wily drug dealer looking to retire after one last score instead of tough but noble private eye Philip Marlowe. Our hero's problem is that he's a careful, calculating businessman in a dicey business where he's surrounded by loose cannons who shoot, stab, or punch first and ask questions later. Director Matthew Vaughn has been best known as Guy Ritchie's producer, but in his directorial debut Vaughn is like Martin Scorsese to Ritchie's Barry Sonnenfeld (that's meant as a compliment to all concerned, I assure you). It helps that Vaughn gets excellent performances from Daniel Craig as our cool but in-over-his-head unnamed antihero (usually films and books that refuse to name their main character strike me as trying too hard to be clever, but it works here), Michael Gambon nearly stealing the show as a cultured but ruthless narcotics kingpin, Colm Meaney and THE INTERPRETER's George Harris as our protagonist's partners in crime, and many folks from Guy Ritchie's films. Sienna Miller doesn't get to do much beyond being eye candy, but she's tasty eye candy indeed. I'm as heterosexual a gal as they come, but after seeing lithe, leggy Miller strip down to black lingerie and garters, I couldn't help thinking, "That Jude Law is one lucky guy!" :-) One of the things I liked about LC is that the protagonist, while thoughtful and competent, is never quite as clever as he thinks he is; somehow everybody manages to be one step ahead of him, if only because they're all so damned unpredictable. Though I've only seen Daniel Craig in three of his many films (the other two were THE ROAD TO PERDITION and THE JACKET), he's clearly one of those actors who never looks or sounds the same from role to role, so if he does indeed end up being Pierce Brosnan's successor as James Bond as rumored, it'll be interesting to see how he fares playing the same character in more than one film! :-) In any case, Craig certainly lives up to the "new Steve McQueen" rep that LC has garnered him. I look forward to seeing what he'll do next!

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