I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Mike Hodges

Writer:

Trevor Preston (written by)

Release Date:

30 April 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

The hypnotic thriller from the director of Croupier and the classic Get Carter

Plot:

Will Graham is a gangster who has left the life of crime and is living in the countryside. He comes...

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Gangster | Drug Dealer | Revenge | London

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Clive Owen	...	Will Graham
Charlotte Rampling	...	Helen
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Davey
Malcolm McDowell	...	Boad
Jamie Foreman	...	Mickser
Ken Stott	...	Turner
Sylvia Syms	...	Mrs. Bartz
Alexander Morton	...	Victor
John Surman	...	Pathologist
Paul Mohan	...	Coroner
Damian Dibben	...	David Myers
Amber Batty	...	Sheridan
Daisy Beaumont	...	Stella, Drugs Seeker
Lidija Zovkic	...	Philippa, Model
Geoff Bell	...	Arnie Ryan

MPAA:

Rated R for language, a rape scene, violent images and brief drug use.

Runtime:

Canada:102 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:103 min | Argentina:103 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Iceland:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-15 | Ireland:15A | UK:15 | USA:R | Canada:14A

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Mosaic Film Group

Trivia:

The title is derived from the song by the late Warren Zevon.

Quotes:

Will: You're wrong, Arnie. You're wrong about most things, most of the time

Movie Connections:

Featured in O Lucky Malcolm! (2006)

Soundtrack:

Phote

Good Movie

First off don't listen to all the haters giving this movie a bad review. If your looking for a "Shoot Em Up" British gangster movie go watch Get Carter(1971) or a Rambo movie. But if you want to see a great movie with a dark plot and the main character being the darkest then this is for you. Will(Clive Owen) is a evil man with a dark past of nothing but regret for all the pain he has brought people in their lives and also his. He has pretty much left everyone & everything that had anything to do with his past,even his family that he has quit writing or trying to contact them at all as it has been three years since someone have any heard from him. He has taken up in what seems to be some sort of park or forest with van he is living out of & also working on the same grounds. His brother Davey is involved in dealing drugs just really a low level dealer. But some events happen to him that leaves him in a bad state. So Will(Clive Owen) is fired from his job not by the foreman but must be the company owner who finds out that they have ex gangster working for them as logger. Will has decided to leave and try o go further away from his past as he glances in a terminal building and sees what seems to be his brother Davey inside,but as Will stops his van to rush into the terminal their is no Davey. Will then sensing something is wrong to Davey tries to call him for days but can't reach him,and thats when it starts to get good as Will has to return home to see Davey. Thats all I'm going to say as anymore could ruin it with a spoiler. Clive Owen is A+++ as he doesn't even crack a smile once the entire movie. Like I said this isn't a shoot em up, but it has violence scenes this more of a story & character movie.