You're Dead (film)

You're Dead

DVD box
Starring Rhys Ifans
John Hurt
Release date
 1999
Country United Kingdom
Germany
Language English

You're Dead is a 1999 British dark comedy crime film directed by Andy Hurst. Although set in London most of the film was in fact filmed in Germany, and the film was released in German dub as You Are Dead, and in Japan as King of UK.[1][2] The plot concerns a disastrously fatal bank robbery set up by a gangster's son played by Rhys Ifans, while the emotional centre of the film is built on the relationship between the accomplice in the robbery, a veteran safe-breaker played by John Hurt, and his policewoman daughter.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Film Review F. Maurice Speed, James Cameron-Wilson - 2000 "Your money or his life - John Hurt in Andy Hurst's over-ambitious You're Dead (from Entertainment) Left: Denise Richards.. ... There are, however, a few wonderful visual flourishes and a nice turn from Rhys Ifans as a demented bank robber."
  2. ↑ Film Review: Special 2000 - Nos 30 to 33 p.xxxii "As it opens, a police SWAT team breaks into a cavernous bank that seems to have accommodated a minor war and we find our anti- heroes - John Hurt and Rhys Ifans - lying in a sepulchral heap. The heist has obvious backfired..."
  3. ↑ Robert Murphy, Geoff Brown, Alan Burton Directors in British and Irish cinema: a reference companion 2006 1844571262 p.312 "What had seemed to be the main thread, the bank robbery set up by decadent gangster's son Rhys Ifans, is pushed aside as the film centres on the relationship between a veteran safe-breaker and his policewoman daughter."
  4. ↑ Premiere 1999 Nos 266 to 269 p.34 "Rhys Ifans ... Il a ensuite tourné dans deux films inédits en France: You're Dead, d'Andy Hurst, avec John Hurt, une sorte de Pulp Fiction à la sauce Monty Python; et Dancing at Lughnasa, ..."
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