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Completed - ENGLISH - Thriller - 111 minutes

Log Line

Academy award-winner Helen Mirren and Academy Award-nominee John Hurt join rising stars Sam Riley and BAFTA-nominee Andrea Riseborough in Rowan Joffe’s razor-sharp adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Rowan JOFFE
Cast : Andrea RISEBOROUGH, Helen MIRREN, John HURT, Sam RILEY

Synopsis

Brighton, 1964. Organized crime has moved into this sleepy English seaside town. Ambitious young gangster Pinkie Brown is determined to stop other gangs taking over his patch, but when he kills a rival, vital evidence falls into the innocent hands of a young waitress, Rose. Pinkie seduces Rose to stop her talking,but her employer, Ida, takes an infuriatingly close interest in the case. A year before the abolition of the death penalty, can Pinkie trust Rose not to betray him and can Rose trust Pinkie not to make her his next victim?

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Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM

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