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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.
Apr 2, 1982 · A gangster (Bob Hoskins) faces a mysterious threat to his business in London in 1980. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this BAFTA-nominated film.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- John Mackenzie
- 1982-04-02
The Long Good Friday (1981) Rated R. Harold is as hard as a rock and he will crush you. He runs the London docks and he wants to put together the biggest real estate deal in Europe. He has Mafia money from America and the tacit cooperation of the London criminal organization.
The Long Good Friday. In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins), a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to...
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- John Mackenzie
- R
- Bob Hoskins
The Long Good Friday. Cockney crime boss Harold Shand has plans to transform an area of London into the venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire, and Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization. 1,043 IMDb 7.6 1 h 54 min 1982. X-Ray R.
Abetted by an ice-cool performance from Helen Mirren as Shand’s in-command moll, The Long Good Friday is not only a gripping gangster thriller but also a vivid portrait of late-1970s Britain—a powder keg of cultural and political tensions on the verge of explosion.
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On one fateful Good Friday, the day Harold is to close a crucial deal with an American organised crime group, Shand finds his empire suddenly under attack. Somebody has killed two of his henchman, tried to murder his mother and blown his favourite pub to smithereens.
