Rollin' with the Nines
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| Rollin' with the Nines | |
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| Directed by | Julian Gilbey |
| Produced by | Geoff Austin |
| Written by | Julian Gilbey, Will Gilbey |
| Starring | Vas Blackwood Terry Stone Billy Murray Simon Webbe Jason Flemyng Robbie Gee |
| Release date(s) | 21 April 2006 |
| Running time | UK: 92 min |
| Language | English |
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Rollin' with the Nines is a 2006 British film set mainly in South London, about a rap group turned drug dealers. The working film title was Proper Little Charlie. The film starred Vas Blackwood (of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Robbie Gee (of Snatch), ex "Blue" member Simon Webbe, ex The Bill and Eastenders Billy Murray. There are also small appearances from Jason Flemyng, Dizzee Rascal, Rodney P, Kano and Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace.
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[edit] Plot
The movie starts with the UK Hip Hop group "Time Served" getting used to living the high life as rap stars. This all comes crashing down however when one of the their members Too Fine is killed in a drive-by because he owes a drug dealer, Temper, money. On returning to her flat after the murder, Too Fine's sister Hope walks in on the same drug dealer looking for his money. After telling her she has two days left to pay or he's going to kill her family he rapes her and leaves. While this is happening the other two members of the group, Rage and Finny find out that due to being signed as a three man group, their contract is now void.
Under the premise of paying him back, Hope goes to Temper's house with a sawn-off shotgun. After killing him she goes back to Finny's. Knowing that Temper's two side-kicks, Chosen-one and Chronic, will come hunting for her, Finny, Rage and their friend Pushy decide to finish them off. Turning up at their favourite night-club, they kill the two, catching a waitress in the crossfire.
Hope is then contacted by big time crime lord David Brumby, who wants the money Temper owed him. She instead convinces him to work with her instead, and with Finny, Rage and Pushy, go into the drug dealing business. While this is going on, DS Andy White is on the case looking for the killers of the night club waitress.
White and his cohorts raid a Yardie drug-dealer and find out that Too Fine and Pushy are connected. Knowing this they begin tailing Pushy and his known affiliates, Rage and Finny. Noticing they are being followed on the way to a drug deal, they attempted to give their pursuers the shake. Finny although is captured after their cars rolls off the road and they attempt to get away on foot. In order to avoid going down for multiple offences (White also threatens to have him killed in his cell) he fingers everyone else involved.
The police round up everyone involved, including Rage, Pushy and Brumby, but not Hope. Knowing Finny is the grass, Pushy calls Hope, not fully believing him she hangs up on him. Finny then comes round to Hope's to get her to leave London with him. Now knowing the truth she stabs Finny, dumping his body in a car. With his only witness dead, White has to let Rage, Pushy and Brumby go. Thinking they've gotten off, Rage and Pushy go out to celebrate, but get gunned down in the car park of a pub by Brumby's men, on the orders of DS White, who says he'll turn a "blind eye" to Brumby now.
[edit] Characters
Finny: The front man of the group Time Served, he also used to be in an under-ground rap group beforehand. The other members of the group are killed in a drive by, and he later gets arrested for armed robbery.
Too Fine: Before becoming successful in Time Served he used to be a drug dealer, and his unpaid street debts with Temper are what get him killed, and spark the whole movie's storyline off.
Rage: Described as a "Nasty little bastard" he served time in a young offender's institute with Too Fine.
Pushy: A friend of the group but not a member, at the start of the movie he is a small time weed dealer, but joins in with Hope to start selling Brumby's drugs.
Hope: The sister of Too Fine, she convinces Brumby to go in with her after killing his main dealer Temper.
David Brumby: The main drug dealer at the top, he imports the drugs from Holland for Temper, and later Hope to sell. It's possible he's from Essex as DS White says to him, "You're a long fucking way from Essex boys".
DS Andy White: The anti-hero of the film, while he's a corrupt copper, who sells confiscated drugs on the side he is dedicated to helping the people that can't help themselves. While his methods are questionable and extremely heavy handed, he gets results. After failing to get the killers of the night-club waitress (stating he doesn't care about the drug dealers that got killed, just her) legally, he orders them killed by Brumby.
[edit] Quotes
- "You're a long fucking way from Essex boys, we do things a bit different in this fair city"
- "I'm too fucking pretty to go to prison, do you know what they do to people like me in prison?"
- "Of course I'm prang, we've got enough shit in this car to put us down for fifteen to twenty, and that's if the judge is in a good mood. And if he aint sniffed Mrs Judge's pussy the night before we're going down for thirty to life!"
- "Even that old dear in the middle lane's pushing eighty, it's too conspicuous. When three spoons are obeying the speed limit in a tinted VR6, you can bet they're doing it for a fucking reason."
- "For the record, I'm supposed to say: 'Congratulations, that's the biggest bust we've had this year', 36 firearms, a kilo of cocaine and 2 bodies in a bath tub, so, once again, for the record 'congratulations'. Now, fuck off out of my office..."
- "Shut it, you mouthy cunt!"
- "Fuck off. Go on, fuck off!"
- "Now that is a kilo of very good cocaine. I don't deal in this cut-to-fuck shit these Yardie arseholes bring in from Jamaica...this is straight from Holland..."
[edit] Awards
Won Jury Prize at the Raindance Film Festival 2005
Nomination for Director Julian Gilbey at the BAFTA Awards 2007 for the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer.
[edit] Soundtrack
[edit] Track listing
- Ms. Dynamite & Akala : "Don't Do That"
- Hyper Hitman & S. Dee : "Back Down"
- Life & Rodney P : "Ghetto War Cry"
- Kano : "Buss Dat"
- JC, Major Yardie & Shabba D : "Streets"
- Shy Fx : "On The Run"
- Life, Skinnyman & Sway : "The Whole Nine"
- Northstar : "Rollin' with the Nines"
- Swiss : "Talk 2 Me"
- Camilla, Gemma Fox & Lady Fury : "Girls Gotta Do"
- Daze, Hyper Hitman & J2K : "Dutty Life"
- P.D.C : "Gangster"
- Dizzee Rascal & Klass A : "Money"
- Simon Webbe & UK Team : "2 Step"
- S Elle : "U Choose"
- Kano : "Ghetto Kid"
- Corey J, Gappy Ranks & Jagwa : "Make Way"
- Sizzla : "Rise to the Occasion"
- Sizzla : "Wrath"
