Summaries

A former gangster reenters the criminal underworld after his brother suspiciously commits suicide.

Will Graham is a gangster who has left the life of crime and is living in the countryside. He comes out of hiding to investigate the death of his brother when he learns that he committed suicide. Charlotte Rampling is his old girlfriend who owns a restaurant. Boad is the villain responsible for the bad things that happened to Will's brother.—Andrea Barney <[email protected]>

After the suicide of the small time drug dealer and thief Davey, his brother and former powerful gangster Will Graham, who is living a peaceful recluse life trying to redeem himself from his past, returns to his homeland to investigate the motives for such desperate act. Will hires an independent autopsy and the coroner informs that Davey had been raped the night before his death. Will returns to his past life seeking for revenge.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • male rape
  • male nudity
  • sexual assault
  • anal rape
  • sexual battery
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • Drama
Release date Apr 29, 2004
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States United Kingdom
Language English
Filming locations Dark Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Production companies Revere Pictures Mosaic Film Group Will & Company

Box office

Gross US & Canada $360759
Opening weekend US & Canada $13415
Gross worldwide $490964

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 43m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

Davey Graham is a small-time drug dealer and petty thief who provides cocaine to England's "smart set." After following Davey for a period of time a mystery trio attacks Davey after he leaves a party where he has just completed a sale to a buyer and her mysterious companion. Davey Is anally raped by one of the three attackers, identified later as a car dealer, thereupon he pulls himself together and makes his way to his apartment where he draws himself a bath, gets in fully clothed and several hours later kills himself. As it happens his brother Will has just been fired from his job in a lumber camp because he "had no paperwork" and after trying to call Davey returns to town after a 3 year absence. He had previously been the head of the local mob, so his return prompts a panic in the current head, Turner. When he finds out about Davey's death, he is suspicious and pays for a private autopsy which reveals the likely rape. Will decides to find out who did it and why which he quickly does and then after telling the killer that he will one day come back and kill him, decides to do it then and there instead. Prior to exacting his revenge he calls Helen, the girl he left behind when he went off to the woods, and tells her to pack a suitcase and be ready to go in three hours. Whether she packs or not we don't know, but we see her sitting and waiting, in the company of a hired killer, for Will to come by. Whether he did or not we don't know.

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