Story Line
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
“Sometimes love is a strange and wicked game.”
Top Cast
Bob Hoskins
George
Cathy Tyson
Simone
Michael Caine
Mortwell
Robbie Coltrane
Thomas
Clarke Peters
Anderson
Kate Hardie
Cathy
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Rating
6.9/ 10
Release Date
1986-06-13
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
CrimeDramaRomanceThriller
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User Reviews (3)
JPV852
8/10
•6/23/2022Really good British neo-noir featuring great performances from Bob Hoskins and the lovely Cathy Tyson who share some nice scenes together and a pretty melancholy ending. Michael Caine is great as a classy scumbag (seems like he played many of these r...
Peter McGinn
6/10
•6/19/2023I had watched this movie many years ago, but not to remember much of it, so with the fairly positive ratings and Bob Hoskins, it felt like a safe bet. But there wasn’t as much humor as I thought I remembered, and the plot of a guy trying to “rescue” ...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•4/21/2025Bob Hoskins is entirely convincing as the increasingly conflicted and crotchety petty criminal “George” who has just been released after a seven year stretch as a guest of Her Majesty. He has been released into a world that doesn’t really want him an...