O Golpe de Baker Street (2008)

Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets.

Director:

Roger Donaldson

Writers:

Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais

Stars:

Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Statham	...	Terry Leather
Saffron Burrows	...	Martine Love
Stephen Campbell Moore	...	Kevin Swain
Daniel Mays	...	Dave Shilling
James Faulkner	...	Guy Singer
Alki David	...	Bambas
Michael Jibson	...	Eddie Burton
Georgia Taylor	...	Ingrid Burton
Richard Lintern	...	Tim Everett
Peter Bowles	...	Miles Urquart
Alistair Petrie	...	Philip Lisle
Hattie Morahan	...	Gale Benson
Julian Lewis Jones	...	Snow
Andrew Brooke	...	Quinn
Rupert Frazer	...	Lord Drysdale (as Rupert Fraser)

Storyline

Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is a safe-deposit box with compromising photos of a royal: she needs the photos to trade for avoiding a jail sentence - and MI-5, or is it MI-6, is pulling the strings two steps removed. A Trinidadian thug, a high-end bordello owner, and a pornographer also have things stored in the vault, so the break-in threatens many a powerful personage. Is there any way these amateurs can pull it off?

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Plot Keywords:

safe deposit | heist | chase | mobster | london england | 

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Taglines:

The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.

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Genres:

Crime | Thriller

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Certificate:

M/16

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is a scene 1 hour and 15 minutes into the film where Lew Vogel says Dave Shilling was outside the bank a few days ago and looked a bit shifty. Daniel Mays who plays Dave starred in a film called Shifty in 2008

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Goofs

Terry and Martine arrive on a tube-stock train, which at Paddington could only be on the Bakerloo line train (all other underground lines at Paddington would be the much larger surface-stock trains). The announcer incorrectly announces "Change here for the Bakerloo line", the passengers were already on the Bakerloo line.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Eddie Burton: [while drilling a mileage meter back] Another Terry Leather low mileage gem.

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Crazy Credits

Disclaimer: "The names of many people identified in this film have been changed to protect the guilty."

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Connections

Referenced in Os Simpsons: The Book Job (2011)

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Soundtracks

Save Me
Written by Steve Balsamo (as S. Balsamo), Andy Collins (as A. Collins),
Dai Smith (as D. Smith), Rob Thompson (as R. Thompson)
Performed by The Storys
Published by Copyright Control/PRS-MCPS
(p) 2005 Hall Recordings
Courtesy of Warner Records
John Waller Management
www.thestorys.co.uk

User Reviews

A very good British Film

I also saw this film at an advance screening. I don't normally watch any of the trailers before going, so tend to go in with an open mind. I was very pleasantly surprised, and while it perhaps won't win any Oscars, I thought it was well acted in the main with some faces you'll recognise. It might not have massive appeal outside the UK, however it is a good (based on fact) story. I'm not a massive fan of 70's music, but it wouldn't have done any harm to have a bit more in the background just to give it more of a seventies feel about it. The general mood of the film was good and for me seemed to set the scene well, without going overboard with sex or violence. On the whole, it's well worth a visit, even if you have never lived in that era.

Details

Official Sites:

Lionsgate [UK] Lionsgate [United States]

Country:

UK USA Australia

Language:

English Latin

Release Date:

10 April 2008 (Portugal)

Also Known As:

O Golpe de Baker Street

Filming Locations:

Chatham Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$5,935,256, 9 March 2008

Gross USA:

$30,060,660

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$64,828,421

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mosaic Media Group, Relativity Media, Omnilab Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

111 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1