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Apr 2, 1982 · The Long Good Friday: Directed by John Mackenzie. With Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan, Kevin McNally, Patti Love. An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- John Mackenzie
- 1982-04-02
The Long Good Friday is a 1980 British gangster film directed by John Mackenzie from a screenplay by Barrie Keeffe, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. Set in London , the storyline weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including mid-level political and police corruption , and IRA fund-raising.
Bob Hoskins stars as the powerful underworld kingpin (Harold Shand) who is trying to change his image and go “straight”. His plans to develop the Docklands ...
- 5 min
- 27.2K
- Handmade Films
The Long Good Friday. R Released Apr 2, 1982 1h 54m Crime Drama. List. 97% Tomatometer 31 Reviews. 89% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings. In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand (Bob ...
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- John Mackenzie
- R
- Bob Hoskins
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"The Long Good Friday," which is a masterful and very tough piece of filmmaking, eventually does answer these questions. But the point of the film isn't to analyze Harold Shand's problems. It's to present a portrait of this man. And I have rarely seen a movie character so completely alive. Shand is an evil, cruel, sadistic man.
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Art director. Vic Symonds. Costume design by. Tudor George. Music composed by. Francis Monkman. A combustible performance from Bob Hoskins is the fuse that lights this underworld saga, a landmark of British crime cinema. Hoskins plays Harold Shand, an ambitious London mobster who, just as he attempts to close a major real-estate deal with the ...
