I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead film poster
Directed by	Mike Hodges
Distributed by	Paramount Classics
Release date(s)	June 16, 2004
Country	UK
Language	English
IMDb profile

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is a British crime film from Mike Hodges, the director of 1971's Get Carter and 1998's Croupier. Paramount Classics released the film in select US cinemas on June 16, 2004.

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Academy Award nominee Clive Owen stars as Will Graham, a former London enforcer who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) commits suicide following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile crime lord (Malcolm McDowell), Will returns to London to murder those responsible. There he must also face old enemies and a former love, Helen (Charlotte Rampling).

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Critical response

"Does the film work? All I know is that it stays in my mind for its ambitiously autumnal essence, but it may not be everyone's cup of tea." - Andrew Sarris, New York Observer