Shooters (film)
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"We're not buying a loaf of bread here—we're selling machine guns."
| Shooters | |
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 In the tradition of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels |
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| Directed by | Colin Teague Glenn Durfort |
| Produced by | Margery Bone Will Bone |
| Written by | Andrew Howard Louis Dempsey Gary Young |
| Narrated by | Louis Dempsey |
| Starring | Adrian Dunbar Andrew Howard Louis Dempsey Gerard Butler Melanie Lynskey |
| Music by | Kemal Ultanur |
| Cinematography | Tom Erisman |
| Editing by | Kevin Whelan |
| Distributed by | Media Cooperation One (MC-One) |
| Release date(s) |  February 21, 2000 January 25, 2002 September 28, 2002 (Nederlands Film Festival) |
| Running time | 95 min |
| Country | United Kingdom United States Netherlands |
| Language | English |
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Shooters is a 2002 British crime drama film from directors Colin Teague and Glenn Durfort, and writers Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey and Gary Young. It was filmed in London in 1999 and released theatrically in the UK on January 25, 2002. In addition to co-writing the screenplay, Howard and Dempsey also play the film's two leading roles.
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[edit] Plot Synopsis
After six years behind bars, Gilly (Dempsey) wants to settle down and live a quiet life. But it is not to be. He is released from prison only to find that his crime partner J (Howard) has invested all their money in a massive array of submachine guns, forcing Gilly back into a life of crime. Their last deal goes down in seven days, but the way things are going, Gilly's not sure he can hold out that long.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Adrian Dunbar | Max Bell |
| Andrew Howard | J |
| Louis Dempsey | Gilly |
| Gerard Butler | Jackie Junior |
| Jason Hughes | Charlie Franklin |
| Matthew Rhys | Eddie |
| Ioan Gruffudd | Freddy Guns |
| Jamie Sweeney | Skip |
| Melanie Lynskey | Marie |
| Emma Fielding | Detective Inspector Sarah Pryce |
| David Kennedy | Sergeant Webb |
| Joseph Swash | Boy |
| Ranjit Krishnamma | Pac |
| Nitin Ganatra | Ajay |
[edit] Connections
[edit] Movie Connections
- The Jason Hughes character Charlie Franklin bears remarkable resemblance to the True Romance character Drexl, a ruthless pimp and drug dealer played by Gary Oldman. Similar to Drexl, Charlie sports long scraggly dreadlocks and even has the same crescent-shaped scar under his right eye.
- The scene in which J and Gil confront Charlie Franklin is a direct rip-off of the scene in True Romance in which Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) confronts Drexl (Gary Oldman). Both sequences involve the protagonists being offered Chinese takeout and declining, then infilcting irreversible damage on the drug dealer's genitals.
[edit] Music Connections
- American rapper 50 Cent sampled dialogue from the film between the characters J and Eddie for the opening track of his 2007 album Curtis.[1]
[edit] External Links
- Shooters at the Internet Movie Database
- Shooters at Rotten Tomatoes
- Shooters at Allmovie
