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City of Tiny Lights

  • 20162016
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  • 1h 50m
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Billie Piper and Riz Ahmed in City of Tiny Lights (2016)
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In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanatic... Read allIn the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.
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    • Pete Travis
    • Patrick Neate
  • Stars
    • Riz Ahmed
    • Billie Piper
    • James Krishna Floyd
    • Pete Travis
    • Patrick Neate
  • Stars
    • Riz Ahmed
    • Billie Piper
    • James Krishna Floyd
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    • 36User reviews
    • 38Critic reviews
    • 55Metascore
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    Billie Piper and Hannah Rae in City of Tiny Lights (2016)
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    Antonio Aakeel and Reiss Kershi in City of Tiny Lights (2016)
    Riz Ahmed in City of Tiny Lights (2016)
    Kim-Anh Le-Pham in City of Tiny Lights (2016)
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    James Krishna Floyd in City of Tiny Lights (2016)
    James Krishna Floyd in City of Tiny Lights (2016)
    Hannah Rae in City of Tiny Lights opposite Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper
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    Hannah Rae in City of Tiny Lights opposite Billie Piper
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    Riz Ahmed
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    • Tommy Akhtar
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    • Trivia
      The cigarettes smoked in the film (particularly by Tommy) were specially made-for-filming fake cigarettes. At the TIFF screening, director Pete Travis joked that Riz Ahmed was sick whenever he had to smoke them, in which case Travis would then make him smoke another one for good measure.
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      Sound Bwoy Burial (Soundscape 4/4 Mix Edit)
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    Abysmally bad
    I genuinely doubt they could have made this film worse, even if they had tried. To be frank, the main entertainment value was shouting at the screen, 'Oh, come on, this can't get any worse!', only to be confounded by the film's stupidity in the very next scene. Just appallingly badly made. You'd think it would be impossible to make a film this weak in this day and age, when every YouTuber can teach you how to write a good script. Abysmal.
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      • July 26, 2017 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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      • London, England, UK
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      • BBC Films
      • MEDIA Programme of the European Union
      • UK Film Council
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    • 1 hour 50 minutes
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