Dead Man's Shoes
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| Directed by | Shane Meadows |
| Produced by | Mark Herbert |
| Written by | Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine, Paul Fraser |
| Starring | Paddy Considine |
| Cinematography | Danny Cohen |
| Editing by | Celia Haining, Lucas Roche, Chris Wyatt |
| Distributed by | Optimum Releasing |
| Release date(s) |  1 October, 2004 |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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Dead Man's Shoes is a British 2004 film directed and co-written by Shane Meadows. As with all of Meadows' work, it is based in the Midlands, with the film being shot in Matlock, Derbyshire. The film stars Paddy Considine, who won an Empire Award for his performance and co-wrote the script. Featuring many first-time and non-professional actors, Considine's two nephews also feature. It garnered excellent reviews, but did not attain any sizeable commercial success.
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[edit] Plot
The story revolves around the character of Richard (Paddy Considine), a soldier returning to his small home town in the Peak District. Richard has returned home to exact revenge on his mentally disabled younger brother Anthony's (Toby Kebbell) tormentors.
Richard and Anthony camp at an abandoned farm near the town, their reminiscences of childhood interspersed with flashbacks to Anthony's ordeal at the hands of the gang youth, and Richard's subsequent revenge. This revenge starts when the gang and their leader Sonny find out about his presence. Sonny confronts Richard in a failed attempt to intimidate him. Richard's revenge begins with the older members of the gang. While they are asleep he sneaks into their house, wearing a green coat and a gas mask. He dyes one of the two mens hair multi-coloured and paints a target on the back of the other's suit. On the same evening he enters Sonny's house and applies make up to Sonny's face.
However things soon turn nasty as Richard sneaks into a club where the gang are hiding out and playing cards and kills one of their members with an axe, using his blood to scribble the words "One Down" on the wall. The gang take their Citroën 2CV and go to the farm where Richard is staying with Anthony. Sending in one of their member to draw Richard out, Sonny prepares to shoot him with a rifle. However, he misfires and kills his gang member.
The surviving members return to a local petrol station where one of them runs off, scared of Richards revenge. The other three return home, they search the house expecting Richard to be there. However while they are upstairs Richard laces their kettle with a sizable amount of drugs taken from the gang earlier in the film. The three members become too high to be aware that Richard is in the house and he kills them one by one. He shoots Sonny in the head, punches another member at such an angle that he is killed, and the last he stabs. He is revealed also to have already killed the gang member who ran away, although it is not revealed how.
With one member of the gang left, Richard abducts him and takes him to an old outbuilding. It is now revealed that Anthony is dead, after hanging himself because of his torture at the hands of the gang. The Anthony that is seen with Richard throughout the film is in fact, a hallucination. Richard then forces the remaining member to stab him, and dies.
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- Paddy Considine - Richard
- Gary Stretch - Sonny
- Toby Kebbell - Anthony
- Emily Aston - Patti
- Neil Bell - Soz
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