Directed by:
Mike FiggisScreenplay:
Mike FiggisCinematography:
Roger DeakinsComposer:
Mike FiggisCast:
Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean, James Cosmo, Heathcote Williams, Mark Long, Alison Steadman, Al Matthews, Bill Fellows, Nicholas Lumley (more)VOD (1)
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Sean Bean (Ronin) plays Brendan, a young loafer taken under the wing of jazz club owner Finney (Sting, Quadrophenia), who’s under pressure from American mobster Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive) to sell up in exchange for a cut of a local land development deal. Brendan just wants to earn an honest crust, but his burgeoning relationship with Cosmo’s ex-lover Kate (Melanie Griffith, Body Double) threatens to drag him into the middle of the impending showdown… (Arrow Films)
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With the corners of Newcastle at heart, Mike Figgis wrote, cast Sting, financed with American money, composed the music, and created a peculiar neo-noir. Through Roger Deakins, the city of Tyne is utilized as thoroughly as the atmosphere of jazz jamming and melancholic music. The blazoned Gordon Sumner and the nasty American Tommy Lee Jones may be unnecessarily overshadowing the central duo, whose female half, for reasons unknown before filming, went to the hairdresser, stuck a picture of Chucky on the mirror with gum, and said, "Like this!" I’d hate to spoil the ending, but Sean Bean unexpectedly...
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