Johnny Was

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-07-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (1501 Reviews)

Director:

Mark Hammond

Genres:

Action Crime Drama

Cast:

Vinnie Jones Patrick Bergin Eriq La Salle Samantha Mumba

Writer:

Brendan Foley

Fullplot:

Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian 'Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.

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