Johnny Was (2006)

Cast and Crew

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Director

Mark Hammond

Producer

Ira Besserman, Patrick J. FitzSymons, Brendan Foley, Lars Hermann, Paul Largan, Tom Maguire

Screenwriter

Brendan Foley

Starring

• Vinnie Jones as Johnny Doyle
• Patrick Bergin
• Eriq La Salle
• Samantha Mumba as Rita
• Lennox Lewis
• Roger Daltrey
• Laurence Kinlan
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia
• Mark Asante

Story

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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.

Pictures (1 photo)

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