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Mood:
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- Criminal HeroesGangstersDrug DealingGoing StraightCons and ScamsCrimesDishonestyHopes more...
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Genres:
- CrimeThrillerNeo Noir
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s70s90s
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Place:
- EnglandEuropeLondon
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- Twists and Turns
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- Based on Book
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Layer Cake, 2004
English, Romanian
UK
Profile of Layer Cake
The mood of Layer Cake is rough, suspenseful, and bleak. The plot centers around going straight, drug dealing, and gangsters. It is a thriller and crime movie. Stylistically, Layer Cake is neo-noir and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is London. Layer Cake happens in the 1960s and in the 1990s. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Layer Cake is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes strong violent content, drugs/alcohol, and nudity.
Summary of Layer Cake
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he maneuvers 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.
First-time director Michael Vaughn (producer on SNATCH and LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) brings a practiced eye to the film, creating a slick, highly entertaining visual style which perfectly complements the twisting storyline. The London drug world comes to vibrant life in screenwriter J.J. Connolly's adaptation of his first novel, which retains its keen ear for slang and its eye for detail, giving LAYER CAKE a thrilling ring of authenticity. In the role of XXXX, Daniel Craig has a commanding presence, portraying a man who is so good at his job that he may never be permitted to leave it, regardless of how smart he is or how well he's planned. Like the best in the crime-thriller genre, LAYER CAKE is unpredictable, unsettling, and unforgettable.
Details
| Language: | English, Romanian |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | January 2005 |
| Runtime: | 105 min |
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Manohla Dargis
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Ray Bennett
Users Reviews
- 01.July.2010
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- by: Chriseff
- Chriseff rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 09.October.2009
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- by: Ethan Clapham
- Ethan Clapham rated this movie
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