Layer Cake Movie Review 2005

The unnamed protagonist (Craig), referred to only as "XXXX" in the closing credits, is a too-cool-for-you cocaine dealer trying to leave the business. But, just as we all could've guessed, somehow he's convinced to pull "one last job," searching out the daughter of a fellow crime-boss and, oh yeah, coordinate the sale of a million stolen tablets of Ecstasy along the way. And, of course, a few things go wrong. Guy Ritchie's producer Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut. Vaughn successfully negotiates the cockney-chocked, bass-thumping, and humorously violent British crime genre his colleague defined so well with just as much pizzazz and twists.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Running time 105 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Action-Thriller, Crime Drama, Organized Crime, London

Screenplay

J.J. Connolly

Cast

Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Michael Gambon, Tamer Hassan, Ben Whishaw, Burn Gorman, Sally Hawkins, Sienna Miller, Stephen Walters, Jason Flemyng, Dragan Micanovic, Dexter Fletcher, Steve John Shepherd, Marvin Benoit, Marcel Iures

Cinematography

Benjamin Davis

Director

Matthew Vaughn

Music

Lisa Gerrard, Ilan Eshkeri

Other

Matthew Collinge, Jon Davis, Stephen Carter, Stephanie Collie, Kave Quinn

Producer

Matthew Vaughn, Adam Bohling, David Reid, Sony Pictures Classics